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36 Real Size Comparisons That Blew Our Doors Off

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36 Real Size Comparisons That Blew Our Doors Off

December 06, 2023

Sometimes all it takes to know something is to fully compare it to something else — especially when it comes to size. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here today. Below are 36 incredible size comparisons that are sure to astound you…

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Wind Turbines

CRACKED.COM This is the actual size of a wind turbine blade. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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Curiosity (2013) Sojourner (1997) CRACKED COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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THE JUMBOTRON AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM AT&T STADIUM 160 ft 72 ft 1/0 BEING WASHED BY MEN IN BASKET CRANES. CRACKED.COM — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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CRACKED.COM Fun Fact! The eyeballs of Architeuthis dux, the giant squid, have a diameter of approximately 27 cm. A regulation basketball has a diameter of roughly 23 cm. Our point being: Next time you are swimming in the ocean, just remember... IT can see you LONG before YOU see it! — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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CRACKED.COM Michelangelo's David stands tall at nearly 17ft. Here he is undergoing restoration. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRAGKED.COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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CRACKED.COM HERCULES the liger TOUR Hercules is the world's LIGERLIGER COM 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 661 Here he is next to his average-sized handler and double decker bus. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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CRACKED.COM 100,000,000,000, 000,000,000x In size, a string in string theory is to an electron what a human is to Milky Way galaxy. 100,000,000,000, 000,000,000x e — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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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 — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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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 — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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m m m r m m m m m m m ... m m m B m m It takes 2,177,988,019 MEMs m m to fill a C-5 Galaxy. But it takes -68 C-5s to hold the 146 billion MEMs produced each year. CRACKED.COM — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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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 — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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CRACKED.COM THE WORLD OF MINECRAFT HAS MORE SURFACE AREA THAN URANUS — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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Ants outnumber humans by 1.4 millions to one. Stars outnumber ants by 30 millions to one. CRACKED.COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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Alaska covers 663,300 square miles. GRAGKED.COM It makes up about 17.8% of the United States' area. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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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 - — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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Fleas can jump 220 times their own body length and 150 times their own body height. If we were to scale one up to our size it would be like us jumping over two Great Pyramids! CRACKED.COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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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. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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CRACKED.COM IF THE MOON WAS AS BIG AS JUPITER, THIS IS HOW OUR NIGHT SKY WOULD LOOK — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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LARGEST BAT SMALLEST BAT Giant Kitti's Golden-Crowned Hog-Nosed Flying Fox Bat CRACKED COM — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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THIS IS 25-YEAR-OLD JYOTI KISANJI AMGE, FROM INDIA, THE WORLD'S SHORTEST LIVING WOMAN AT JUST PRETTY 2 FEET mg 0.7 INCHES 15 (62.8 cm) TALL. CRACKED.COM — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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CRACKED.COM US National Debt $17,962,642,948,000 AMES (est.) the ITEM : EMIER THE 12 1. 12 L 48088285 . 12 - 1 ONE DOLLAH (Or, a stack of dollar bills going to the moon and back 5 times.) — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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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 — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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All of the continents on Earth could fit inside the CRACKED.COM Pacific Ocean. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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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 — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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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 — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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CRACKED.COM THIS IS WHAT ONE BILLION DILLARY DOLLARS WOULD LOOK LIKE One Billion Dollars Stack height One Million Dollars 19 feet 5 .8 meters ФО STACKED ON A A I TENNIS COURT, COMPARED TO A STACK OF ONE MILLION. — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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The Great Lakes truly are great. Lake Michigan is so - - big it could take in Belgium... UNITED - BILLAND I KINGDOM TWICE! - - CONA GERMANY - Also, it is larger than 9 .. Paris you separate American - states. FRANCE Lake Superior THE - SWEDEN - could engulf all of - - - Scotland! - - - Mintk MIX Atlantic Ocean INTA - Also, it is almost the ISSUARE - - - size of Indiana. m - People's - - State CRACKED COM — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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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 — 38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode

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Earth Mercury Venus 4,879 km / 3,031 miles 12,104 km/7,521 miles Mars 6,771 km/4,207 miles Jupiter 139,822 km/86,881 miles All the planets in our Solar System could fit between the distance from Earth to the Moon. Saturn 116,464 km/72,367 miles Uranus 50,724 km / 31,518 miles CRACKED.COM Neptune 49,244 km/30,598 miles Distance to spare Moon ] 4,392 km/2,729 miles — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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Burj Khalifa (World's tallest building) 2,717ft One World Trade Center 1,792 ft Empire State Building 1,454ft Q1 (Tallest building in Australia) 1,058 ft US Bank Tower (Tallest building in Los Angeles) 1,018ft Golden Gate Bridge 746 ft Pyramid at Giza 455 ft Sydney Harbour Bridge 440 ft Taj Mahal 240 ft Sydney Opera House 213 ft Uluru 1,142 ft Uluru. Uluru is the preferred Aboriginal name for Ayer's Rock, a sandstone 1 MILE outcrop in the center of Australia. It rises 1,142 feet above the desert floor. It is estimated to extend at Satellite View least 8,000 feet below the — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

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You wouldn't guess it at a distance, but the diameter of a single traffic light is 12 inches. That's slightly bigger than a basketball. CRACKED COM — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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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 — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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The Statue of Unity in India

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 — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

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