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35 Trivia Tidbits to Upend Your Sense of Scale

May 15, 2024

You kids can call this list a lot of things, but you definitely can’t call it “mid.” We’ve got the massive. We’ve got the minuscule. But words like medium, median, mean, moderate or this “mid” you speak of have no business being in and around this list. It’s macro, micro or bust.

Man, you can describe size with a lot of M words!

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Michelangelo’s David

Michelangelo's David is over 17 feet tall. And weighs over 12,000 pounds. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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. GRACKED.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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One ant weighs one-millionth of that of a human. Yet all the ants in the world outweigh all the humans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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1936 19.66 Empire State Buildings Weight of 1 Hoover Dam CRACKED COM — Source

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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Curiosity (2013) Sojourner (1997) CRACKED COM — Source

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — Source

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This is a satellite view of the Grand Canyon: This is Vallis Marineris, on Mars: Here's how they'd look at the same scale: CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — Source

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LARGEST BAT SMALLEST BAT Giant Kitti's Golden-Crowned Hog-Nosed Flying Fox Bat CRACKED COM — Source

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Hitler's planned Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster tank was 138 feet long (longer than seven Sherman tanks) and was meant to fire a shell larger than a Mini Cooper. 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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CRACKED.COM These tiny crystalline flowers are growing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial... ...on a penny. http://hyperallergic.com/72044/sculpting-the-tiniest-flowers-in-the-world-to-build-the-future-of-nanotechnologyl — Source

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EARTH SUN SUN NML CYGNI 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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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 — Source

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This is an unretouched photograph N of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard مصر IN size beer can. CRACKED.COM — 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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CRACKED.COM THE WORLD OF MINECRAFT HAS MORE SURFACE AREA THAN URANUS — Source

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CRACKED.COM RUSSIA IS ABOUT 400, 000 км² BIGGER THAN PLUTO M People's Anagen - PAR Nogyn Korea - RUSSIA - - une - ONE - - PULA - — 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 highest mountains in the world are nothing compared to the sheer massiveness of our planet. In fact, if you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a billiard ball... 13 12 4 ...it would be smoother than the billiard ball. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tsar Bomb

Tsar Bomba the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. The mushroom cloud is 59 miles high and 29 miles wide. Island of Manhattan 13.5 miles long Rhode Island 48 miles N to S 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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This is a red blood cell and This is a flu virus They're both really, really, tiny. But not everything tiny was created equal... If the flu virus was exactly 1 meter long... ...then a red blood cell would be almost as long as a 747. Lufthansa GRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM 0.8 sq miles 0.6 sq miles You can squeeze 3/4 of Monaco in Dubai Airport Terminal 3 — Source

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NEUTRON STARS ARE THE DENSEST OBJECTS IN THE UNIVERSE (OUTSIDE THE INFINITY DENSITY OF BLACK HOLES) A GRAIN OF SAND MADE FROM A NEUTRON STAR WOULD WEIGH AS MUCH AS 3 EIFFEL TOWERS GRAIN OF NEUTRON SAND CRACKED.COM — Source

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4.2 light years 1.4 million Km If you scale our sun down to the size of a standard ballpoint pen tip then the next nearest star would be 9 miles away. 0.5 mm Proxima Centauri CRACKED.COM — Source

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