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25 Facts About Humongous and Minuscule Things to Give Your Brain the Zoomies

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25 Facts About Humongous and Minuscule Things to Give Your Brain the Zoomies

March 27, 2024

Hope you lugged along your microscope and telescope! The ability to see these without those is gonna be hard enough, but actually comprehending the things on this mini-to-mega scale might honestly never be possible. Our small minds have made peace with that fact, but who knows, maybe your big ol’ knowledge sponge dwarfs ours. Hey, can we get a side-by-side pic for our next list?

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — 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 human race has been transmitting radio signals into space for about 110 years now creating a radio bubble around Earth 220 light years across. So why haven 't aliens picked up our radio signals and contacted us yet? Right there! Because, in the scale of this photograph, our 220 light year radio bubble we 've spent a century making is only the size of a single pixel! CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Largest Dinosaur Ever

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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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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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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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. — Source

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The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM — 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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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. — 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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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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An Ancient Virus

Huge examples of normally small things A gigantic ancient virus Scientists made a huge discovery when they revived Pithovirus sibericum, which had been frozen in permafrost in Siberia for 34,000 years. It's the biggest virus in the world and can only affect single-celled organisms, like amoebae. CRACKED — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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The Biggest Recorded Snowflake

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 — Source

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