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28 Random Facts That Prove Size Does Occasionally Matter

June 24, 2024

When we hear of massive celestial bodies that dwarf our sun and the tiniest possible subatomic particles, it’s hard to know exactly where us humans would fall on the overall size scale. Because yes, on a universal scale, we’re minuscule. But to the trillions of atoms inside of us, we’re like a walking, talking universe of our own.

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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 The wandering albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and can travel thousands of miles in a single journey. They sleep on the wing, and can go for a whole year without touching land at all. Good - stay in the sky where you belong, you monsters. — Source

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The Seawise Giant

CRACKED the 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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Bucket Wheel Excavators

CRACKED 15 The Bagger 293 is a bucket-wheel excavator built in 1995 and weighs over 14,000 tons. It can clear 90 tons of earth from a building site in one go, doing up to 85,000 tons a day. It's grey and badass. — Source

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The Biggest Rock in the World

CRACKED The biggest rock in the world is Burringurrah, also known as Mount Augustus, in Australia. It's twice as massive as the better-known Uluru, at 2,350 feet high and five miles long, although arguably not as photogenic. — Source

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CRACKED Zeus, a Great Dane from Otsego, Michigan, was the tallest dog in the world - 44 inches tall when standing, and 7-foot-4 on his hind legs. Не made it to the ripe old age of five and was a good boy. — Source

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CRACKED The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, with one reaching 39 feet 10 inches in length. However, anacondas are girthier, which as we all know is more important. A 27-foot specimen was nearly four feet around. — Source

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CRACKED In 2020, British artist Sacha Jafri produced The Journey of Humanity, a massive painting totalling 17,000 square feet. It incorporates hundreds of paintings made by children across the world, and sold to a crypto billionaire for $62 million. — Source

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CRACKED Indian artist Sarans К.К. holds the Guinness World Record for the largest oil painting by a single artist, for his 1,800-square-foot portrait of three of the UAE's leaders. — Source

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CRACKED In 2006, an abandoned hangar in California was transformed into the world's largest pinhole camera to take The Great Picture, 111 feet wide and 32 feet high. The developing process involved fire hoses. — 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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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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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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RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km2. CRACKED.COM — 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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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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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 ФО STACKED ON A il TENNIS COURT, COMPARED TO A STACK OF ONE MILLION. — Source

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CRACKED.COM 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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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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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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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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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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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... ST 12 M ...it would be smoother than the billiard ball. GRACKED.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 Galaxy

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

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CRACKED.COM HERSULES 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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