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31 Size Comparisons That Gave Us Hypnagogic Hallucinations

April 02, 2024

For once in our lives, we weren’t happy with labeling something “unfathomable.” Sure, there are eye-widening sizes and numbers that our puny human minds may never be able to comprehend, but we wanted to help our puny minds with comparisons. Is there a better way to put ridiculously large and small things into perspective? No! There isn’t. We win.

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SINCE WE RARELY SEE EAGLES UP CLOSE, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO VISUALIZE THAT THE FEET AND TALONS OF AN ADULT EAGLE... ARE THE SIZE OF AN ADULT HUMAN HAND. CRACKED.COM — 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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The Pentagon contains 17.5 miles of hallways. Area 80 3655 Fillmore Street 5 h 43 min 16.7 miles 1 280° That's longer than a 5 h 18 min pedestrian route from 15.3 miles San Francisco's north South San end to its south end. Fr cisco O 506 Hawthorne Avenue Pacifica 1 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alaska covers 663,300 square miles. GRAGKED.COM It makes up about 17.8% of the United States' area. — Source

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GRAGKED.COM DEAD This is the world's largest working rifle. It is owned by James А. DeCaine (USA) and it is 10.18 m (33 ft 4 in) long. — Source

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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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Trees

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 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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CRACKED.COM THE WORLD OF MINECRAFT HAS MORE SURFACE AREA THAN URANUS — Source

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Size Comparisons

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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CRACKED.COM THIS IS WHAT ONE BILLION DOLLARS WOULD LOOK LIKE One Billion Dollars Stack height One Million Dollars 19 feet 5 8.8 meters ФОГ STACKED ON A is TENNIS COURT, COMPARED TO A STACK OF ONE MILLION. — Source

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Octopuses

Female Blanket Octopuses can grow up to 2 meters or 6 feet 6 inches. Their male counterpart, however, can grow only up to an inch. It's the largest known size difference between genders in the animal kingdom, with the female being 10,000 to 40,000 times heavier than the male. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Goliath birdeater tarantula is the largest spider in the world. It can weigh more than a newborn puppy. CRACKED.COM — 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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The Largest Flying Animal

THE QUETZALCOATLUS WAS AS TALL AS A GIRAFFE Quetzalcoaflus 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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This speck of dust Is half way between the size... Of this... And this CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRACKED.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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This is not a view of the rings of Saturn & one of its moons from the surface of the planet. It's a human egg cell seen next to a human hair. 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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Within the wingspan of a single B-2 Stealth Bomber, You Could Fit: 172 Feet 3 F-14 Fighters 48 Feet 40 Feet 4 Wright Flyers 30 Honda Civics 6 Feet 114 Men Lined Up Shoulder to Shoulder H GRACKED COM 1.5 Feet — 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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