How Big Are These Things vs. Those Things? Dude, You Have No Idea
But how can one microscopic thing weigh as much as 200 million other microscopic things?!
![How Big Are These Things vs. Those Things? Dude, You Have No Idea](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/5/976685_320x180.jpg)
Comprehension is a funny thing. Like, we could say, “Whoa, a crater in South Africa was made by an asteroid with a 118-mile radius!” And you’d be all like, “Cool. Sounds big!” Well, if we then told you that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had a mere six-mile radius, you might have a slightly more impressed reaction. Something like, “Holy hellfire, that’s one colossal, massivenormous, humoungoid icy rock thingy, man!” Then we’d be all like, “We know, right?!”
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![CRACKED The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, with one reaching 39 feet 10 inches in length. However, anacondas are girthier, which as we all know is more important. A 27-foot specimen was nearly four feet around.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/974439.jpg)
![CRACKED Zeus, a Great Dane from Otsego, Michigan, was the tallest dog in the world - 44 inches tall when standing, and 7-foot-4 on his hind legs. Не made it to the ripe old age of five and was a good boy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/974438.jpg)
![CRACKED Other than your mom, history's biggest pig was Big Bill, a 2,500-pound Poland-China hog who was five feet tall at the shoulder and nine feet long. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1930, he died at three after breaking a leg.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/974436.jpg)
![CRACKED of JAHRE VIKING In 1979, the Seawise Giant became not only the world's biggest ship, but the largest moving human-made object ever. It was 1,500 feet long, weighing nearly 600,000 tons, with a stopping distance of, insanely, five and a half miles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/974437.jpg)
![CRACKED It's nice when things aren't surprising. The biggest tree in the world is a massive sequoia, just as it should be. Nicknamed General Sherman, it resides in Sequoia National Park (as it should) and has almost two tons of just leaves.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/974435.jpg)
![CRACKED The asteroid that caused the Vredefort crater in South Africa around two billion years ago had a radius of 118 miles, making the one that killed the dinosaurs (six miles) the space version of a micropenis.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/974434.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/974433.jpg)
![RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km². CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/974432.jpg)
![THE QUETZALCOATLUS WAS AS TALL AS A GIRAFFE Quetzalcoatlus northropi Quetzalcoatlus sp. The Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known flying animal. It was a pterosaur with a wingspan of around 33 feet. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/974418.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things Chan's megastick The biggest bug ever seen was a stick insect called Chan's megastick, found in Borneo. It was over 22 inches long and is now on display at the Natural History Museum in London. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/974423.jpg)
![Huge example It's not just one huge-ass mushroom, The largest but this about the area it takes up. living organism The Blue Mountains of Oregon have the world's biggest fungus, which is also the biggest living organism in the world-a huge honey fungus that is estimated to be 2,400 years old, and covers an area of 3.7 square miles. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/974417.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things A massive eagles' nest The eagles themselves weren't this big (we hope). In 1963, a pair of bald eagles built an incredibly huge nest near St Petersburg, Florida, USA. It was an impressive 9 feet 6 inches wide and 20 feet deep, weighing over 4,400 pounds, and it was the biggest bird's nest ever recorded. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/974420.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things One long noodle A Chinese company called Xiangnian Food Co., Ltd. made the world record for the longest noodle ever on October 28, 2017. It was over 3,000 meters long, or about 10,000 feet-they could basically knit a whole wardrobe with it. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/974419.jpg)
![The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/974413.jpg)
![The world's longest cat is 48.5 from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail bone. The world's smallest cat is 7.5 long (the size of a full-grown guinea pig). CRACKED.COM http://www.cvm.missouri.edu/news/mrpeebles.htm](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/974426.jpg)
![This is Big Lonely Doug, Canada's second largest tree, seen from a distance. And this is Big Lonely Doug with a person climbing it. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/974429.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Russia Population 144 million Russia is 119 times bigger, but has 19 million people fewer than Bangladesh. Bangladesh Population 163 million](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/974411.jpg)
![CRACKED COM These are the branches of the world's largest cashew tree located in Parmarinim, Brazil viewed from ground level. This is an aerial view. The tree covers a total of 8,500 square meters of land.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/974416.jpg)
![HUMAN EGG CELLS ARE ABOUT AS WIDE AS A STRAND OF HAIR IS THICK The egg cell is the largest of the cells in the body. It can be seen without a microscope. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/974410.jpg)
![IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/974425.jpg)
![100,000,000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/974414.jpg)
![GIANT SQUIDS' EYES ARE BIGGER THAN BASKETBALLS Scientists believe they may have giant eyes to help them detect their giant predator, the sperm whale, while in the darkness of underwater. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/974430.jpg)
![BLUE WHALES EJACULATE ENOUGH SPERM TO OVERFILL A WATERCOOLER One researcher estimated a whale produces 5.4 gallons of sperm with each ejaculation. The largest blue whale testicle ever found was over 30 gallons. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/974431.jpg)
![YOU COULD FIT ALL THE PLANETS BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE MOON When the moon is farthest from Earth, the distance between Earth and the Moon is so large that all the other planets in the solar system could fit in between them comfortably. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/974422.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things The longest schnozz Mehmet Özyürek from Turkey has the longest nose of any living man, according to the Guinness World Records. It's 3.46 inches long-he set the record on the set of an Italian show back in 2010, and it hasn't been surpassed since. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/974428.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things 25-year-old fingernails Diana Armstrong from the U.S. has the world record for the longest fingernails for a woman. She hasn't cut them since 1997, and they measure over 42 feet long. She's keeping them in memory of her daughter, who sadly died when she was 16. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/974424.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things A tadpole the size of a Coke can In 2018, an ecologist stumbled upon the biggest tadpole on record in a pond in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona. It was a whopping 10 inches long and wider than a can of soda. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/974427.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things A record- breaking parsnip A Brit grew an incredibly long parsnip at the UK National Giant Vegetable Championships in 2017. It was a world-record 21 feet and 5.87 inches long, and it's the longest in the world so far. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/974421.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things An anaconda- sized earthworm The Australian Gippsland Earthworm is an absolute unit. It can grow up to an incredible 12 feet long and weigh up to 1-1/2 pounds. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/974408.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things The world's biggest, um, tool So, about this size. (!!!!!) Jonah Falcon is famous for having the world's biggest penis - 13.5 inches when he's aroused. He's been in documentaries, interviews, and even Rolling Stone and The Daily Show, where he said his foreskin was so big it could cover a doorknob. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/974409.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things The largest artificial molecule It's about as big as a tobaco mosaic virus. BOCHN Nellitter мивос BOCHN Society NHBoc NH Buchin RockN NHD Rocter - . Bookin - - МНОВ NH NH - BOLHER NH HN . Rocter NHBM NH NH NM ROCHN Nidoo NH - HN No BOCHN Nispos NH NH HN .. Mocha NABAK ROCHN AN BOCHN NHB NH HN ROCHN TO 600 Bocad NHBoo Scientists have created the biggest artificial molecule ever, called PG5. It took 170,000 chemical bonds to put it together. It's about 10 nanometres wide, and weighs the same](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/974415.jpg)
![Huge examples of normally small things The biggest recorded snowflake A ranch owner in Montana found the biggest snowflake ever in 1887. It was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, made up of lots of ice crystals and water droplets. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/974412.jpg)