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30 Things That Are Way Larger or Smaller Than You’d Expect

March 03, 2024

Pictures help us see all kinds of things we wouldn’t be able to see if we weren’t physically amongst them. But they’re a tad deceiving. When we see a picture of The Great Pyramid of Giza, we can’t truly appreciate its magnitude. Don’t worry, though, we sent a Cracked representative to sit at its base for scale. We then realized that we could have just googled tourist pics.

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Just beyond these pillars... ...are the front doors to the U.S. National Archives. CRACKED.COM The bronze doors are over 37 feet tall. — Source

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This is the world's longest insect; it's 24.6 inches long. Species name: Phryganistria chinensis Zhao The researcher who found it initially mistook it for part of a tree. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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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.COM IF THE MOON WAS AS BIG AS JUPITER, THIS IS HOW OUR NIGHT SKY WOULD LOOK — Source

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THE JUMBOTRON AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM AT&T STADIUM 160 Et 72 ft 1/0 BEING WASHED BY MEN IN BASKET CRANES. 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 The mysterious Nazca Lines in Peru, a series of enormous geoglyphs dug into the desert floor, cover 19 square miles and are best seen from above (while pre-dating flight by over a thousand years). — 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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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM HERCULES the liger TOUR Hercules is the world's LIGERLIGER U.S. BUS largest cat. Не weighs over 900 lbs, he's 6 feet tall when sitting, and 11 feet tall when standing on his hind legs. ABD 66 Here he is next to his average-sized handler and double decker bus. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — 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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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 — 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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The sun is as big as one million earths. Solar image by - Beady It also accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's mass. 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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