36 Jaw-Dropping Real Size Comparisons
Size does matter
![36 Jaw-Dropping Real Size Comparisons](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/806520_320x180.jpg)
Sometimes, we don’t really realize how special something is until it’s pointed out to us in terms we can completely understand. For instance, the largest spider in the world, the goliath birdeater tarantula, can weigh more than a newborn puppy. See? Once such a comparison is made, it’s impossible to forget. And don’t worry, there’s a lot more where that came from below…
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/8/806548.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM 31 year old Sultan Kösen The world's tallest man at 251.0 cm tall. 20 year old Jyoti Amge The world's shortest woman at 62.8 cm tall. No, they are not dating.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/7/806557.jpg)
![If the US had the same population density per square mile as India, and we used the excess area for storage, this is what a map of the US would look like. CLOSET SPACE MORE THE USA CLOSET SPACE A NICE SHOE RACK CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/7/806547.jpg)
![The blue whale has the biggest heart in the world. The heart weighs in at 1,000 pounds, about the same as a typical milk cow. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/3/806553.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/4/806554.jpg)
![In an emergency, a Red Kangaroo can jump as high as 10 feet and as far as 30 feet! CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/0/806550.jpg)
![The Curiosity Rover The size of a dog? Nope, more like a small SUV. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/9/806549.jpg)
![Everyone knows Australia is the world's largest island, but how big is it exactly? Slightly bigger than the Moon! 2485 miles 2159 miles From East to West, Australia is roughly 4000 km (2485 miles) wide. The Moon's equatorial diameter is 3476 km (2159 miles). If Australia replaced the Moon it would (probably) look like this in the night sky: CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/5/806555.jpg)
![Actor John Rhys- CRACKED.COM 6'60 Davies stands at 6'1 6'60 tall. 6'00 6'00 His body bouble, Brett Beattie, stands 5'60 5'60 at 4'9 1/2 tall. 5'00 5'00 4'60 4'00 3'60 3'60 2'00 2'00 Helmet height taken into consideration for this graphic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/2/806552.jpg)
![The Goliath birdeater tarantula is the largest spider in the world. It can weigh more than a newborn puppy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/1/806551.jpg)
![Platycleis affinis is a species of bushcricket which certainly has what it takes; two massive testicles which amount to 14% of its total body mass! It has the largest testes in relation to its body mass of any known animal. 5 Kg (11 1bs.) 5 Kg (11 1bs.) A human equivalent would be if the average male's testes weighed 5 kg (11 1bs.) each. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/6/806556.jpg)
![Nuclear weapons are really powerful. How much? Well, in terms of energy released, all nuclear in tests combined, history would equal... A 6.2 magnitude earthquake. There are more than 100 of those every year. And the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the most powerful on record, released around 84,000 times more energy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/6/806546.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Russia Population 144 million Russia is 119 times bigger, but has 19 million people fewer than Bangladesh. Bangladesh Population 163 million](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/4/806544.jpg)
![Mt. Everest's got nothing on Mauna Kea of Hawai'i-the TALLEST mountain on Earth. If the seamount were lifted from the ocean floor and put onto the Tibetan Plateau next to the famed Himalayan peak it would look something approximating the image below. The Big Island volcano (dormant) is 33,000 ft (over six miles!) from base to peak compared to the 12,000 ft base to peak height for Everest. Everest is the highest point on the planet, but sheer height and bulk belongs to Mauna Kea. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/0/806540.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/9/806539.jpg)
![This is Big Lonely Doug, Canada's second largest tree, seen from a distance. And this is Big Lonely Doug with a person climbing it. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/5/806545.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/3/806543.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/1/806541.jpg)
![Gold rings of many sizes were used for closeup shots in LORD THE THE OF RINGS Here is one of them CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/2/806542.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM 0.8 sq miles 0.6 sq miles You can squeeze 3/4 of Monaco in Dubai Airport Terminal 3](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/806536.jpg)
![MINIATURE HORSE CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/806537.jpg)
![The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/806535.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/806533.jpg)
![This is an unretouched photograph N of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard مصر IN size beer can. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/806538.jpg)
![1'7 CELTICS 55 Tacko Fall is one of the CELTICS 29 tallest NBA players of all time. (6'1 Carsen LAU Edwards) - player L3 Here's Fall's wingspan as compared to a standard gym door. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/806530.jpg)
![Just how big is Texas? With an area of 266,874 square miles it's not only larger than every other state except Alaska, it's larger than all but 38 COUNTRIES in the world. Hey France! Suce ma bite, y'all! KANSAS MISSOURI Atlanta, GA x Atlanta x TENNESSEE OKLAHOI ARKANSAS F paso x NE MEXICO 566 miles AL ata . CA Dallas 722 miles ALABAMA GEORGIA Ciudad Jua TEXAS Jacksons Austin LOUISIANA Houston San Antonio CHIHUAHU'A Orian c COAHUILA DE ZARAGOZA FLOR NUEVO LEÓN Monterrey To put its size into some perspective, Atlanta, Texas (a town on the eastern edge of Texas)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/806529.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/806525.jpg)
![CRACKED COM The Great Pyramid of Giza compared to an adult human.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/806532.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/806524.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM x X x X X x X X X X X 1 out of 15 people that have ever been born is alive today](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/806528.jpg)
![Just beyond these pillars... ...are the front doors to the U.S. National Archives. CRACKED.COM The bronze doors are over 37 feet tall.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/806531.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/806527.jpg)
![EARTH SUN SUN NML CYGNI CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/806522.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/806534.jpg)
![THE FIRST FLIGHT OF THE WRIGHT BROTHER'S FLYER WAS 120 FEET... ...LESS THAN THE WINGSPAN OF A BOEING 787! GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/806526.jpg)
![NEW YORK CITY 303 SQUARE MILES SKYRIM 15 SQUARE MILES GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/806523.jpg)