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32 Size Comparisons That Fully Reoriented Our Paradigm

February 19, 2024

Get ready to feel tiny. Or gigantic. Your feelings on the matter are going to be kind of a “cup half full or half empty” scenario. You’re a speck in the universe, but to the atoms that make up your body, you yourself are a walking talking universe. After this list, let us know if you’re on Team Tiny or Team Titan.

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597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is an unretouched photograph ON of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard size beer can. CRACKED.COM — Source

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At 7-8mm in length, the Paedophryne amauensis frog from Papua New Guinea are the smallest known vertebrates on Earth. Here's one sitting on a dime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — Source

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The atom is SO infinitesimally small that a single grain of sand contains more atoms than all the beaches of the world contain grains of sand CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED In 2006, an abandoned hangar in California was transformed into the world's largest pinhole camera to take The Great Picture, 111 feet wide and 32 feet high. The developing process involved fire hoses. — Source

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CRACKED Indian artist Sarans К.К. holds the Guinness World Record for the largest oil painting by a single artist, for his 1,800-square-foot portrait of three of the UAE's leaders. — Source

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CRACKED In 2020, British artist Sacha Jafri produced The Journey of Humanity, a massive painting totalling 17,000 square feet. It incorporates hundreds of paintings made by children across the world, and sold to a crypto billionaire for $62 million. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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CRACKED The biggest rock in the world is Burringurrah, also known as Mount Augustus, in Australia. It's twice as massive as the better-known Uluru, at 2,350 feet high and five miles long, although arguably not as photogenic. — Source

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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. — Source

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CRACKED кализи 151 The Bagger 293 is a bucket-wheel excavator built in 1995 and weighs over 14,000 tons. It can clear 90 tons of earth from a building site in one go, doing up to 85,000 tons a day. It's grey and badass. — Source

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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. — Source

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CRACKED The wandering albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and can travel thousands of miles in a single journey. They sleep on the wing, and can go for a whole year without touching land at all. Good - stay in the sky where you belong, you monsters. — Source

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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. — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the largest man-made structure in existence for thousands of years. Originally 481 feet tall, it has shrunk by 25 feet due to erosion CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is a comet next to Los Angeles. This comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, makes Los Angeles look tiny- but you could theoretically walk across it in an hour. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some caves are so large they contain their own rivers and forests. The largest cave ever discovered, Vietnam's Hang Son Doong, could fit 40 New York skyscrapers with room to spare. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This species of bat has a wingspan of over 5.5 feet Still, the golden-crowned flying fox only weighs up to 3 pounds CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giant Manta Rays can have up to a 29 foot long wingspan They can weigh over 5,300 pounds and live up to 40 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Teletubbies were giants. The smallest character, Ро, was 6.6 feet tall and the largest character, Tinky Winky, was 10 feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelangelo's David is over 17 feet tall. And weighs over 12,000 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wind turbine blades are about 200 feet long. The turbines themselves are around 295 feet, about the height of the Statue of Liberty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Blue Whale's heart weighs over 400 pounds. It is about the size of a golf cart and can be heard from over two miles away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giant Redwood trees can reach up to 400 feet. The tallest of these trees have been identified- but their locations are kept secret to avoid vandalism CRACKED.COM — Source

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