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31 Things That Aren’t As Big or As Small As You Think

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31 Things That Aren’t As Big or As Small As You Think

July 07, 2024

Before you get to the list, just know that we tried to provide as many scales and scopes as we could. Anything to help you wrap your head around some of the most massive and minuscule things in the known universe.

So don’t come crying to us when your brain stretches itself so thin that it snaps and you pass out. When you come to, think back to this disclaimer and try to be okay with the fact that some things can’t fully be fathomed.

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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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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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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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CRACKED 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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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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CRACKED Other than your mom, history's biggest pig was Big Bill, a 2,500-pound Poland-China hog who was five feet tall at the shoulder and nine feet long. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1930, he died at three after breaking a leg. — Source

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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 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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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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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest 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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This is an unretouched photograph ON of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard and مصر size beer can. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Statue Sizes

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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Huge examples of normally small things Chan's megastick The biggest bug ever seen was a stick insect called Chan's megastick, found in Borneo. It was over 22 inches long and is now on display at the Natural History Museum in London. CRACKED — Source

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Huge example It's not just one huge-ass mushroom, The largest but this about the area it takes up. living organism The Blue Mountains of Oregon have the world's biggest fungus, which is also the biggest living organism in the world-a huge honey fungus that is estimated to be 2,400 years old, and covers an area of 3.7 square miles. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things A massive eagles' nest The eagles themselves weren't this big (we hope). In 1963, a pair of bald eagles built an incredibly huge nest near St Petersburg, Florida, USA. It was an impressive 9 feet 6 inches wide and 20 feet deep, weighing over 4,400 pounds, and it was the biggest bird's nest ever recorded. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things One long noodle A Chinese company called Xiangnian Food Co., Ltd. made the world record for the longest noodle ever on October 28, 2017. It was over 3,000 meters long, or about 10,000 feet-they could basically knit a whole wardrobe with it. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things The longest schnozz Mehmet Özyürek from Turkey has the longest nose of any living man, according to the Guinness World Records. It's 3.46 inches long-he set the record on the set of an Italian show back in 2010, and it hasn't been surpassed since. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things 25-year-old fingernails Diana Armstrong from the U.S. has the world record for the longest fingernails for a woman. She hasn't cut them since 1997, and they measure over 42 feet long. She's keeping them in memory of her daughter, who sadly died when she was 16. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things A tadpole the size of a Coke can In 2018, an ecologist stumbled upon the biggest tadpole on record in a pond in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona. It was a whopping 10 inches long and wider than a can of soda. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things A record- breaking parsnip A Brit grew an incredibly long parsnip at the UK National Giant Vegetable Championships in 2017. It was a world-record 21 feet and 5.87 inches long, and it's the longest in the world so far. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things An anaconda- sized earthworm The Australian Gippsland Earthworm is an absolute unit. It can grow up to an incredible 12 feet long and weigh up to 1-1/2 pounds. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things A gigantic ancient virus Scientists made a huge discovery when they revived Pithovirus sibericum, which had been frozen in permafrost in Siberia for 34,000 years. It's the biggest virus in the world and can only affect single-celled organisms, like amoebae. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things The world's biggest, um, tool So, about this size. (!!!!!) Jonah Falcon is famous for having the world's biggest penis - 13.5 inches when he's aroused. He's been in documentaries, interviews, and even Rolling Stone and The Daily Show, where he said his foreskin was so big it could cover a doorknob. CRACKED — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things The largest artificial molecule It's about as big as a tobaco mosaic virus. ROCHN Nellot NHBOC BOCHN BoctoN NHBoc NH Buchin RockN NHR Hocht - . Bookin - - МНОБ NH NH - BOLHER NH HN . NHO Rochte NHBM NH NH NM ROCHN NiStor NH + HN No BocHN NH NH HN = Mocha ROCHN HN BOCHN NHB NH Hh ROCHN 10 600 Bocao NHBoo Scientists have created the biggest artificial molecule ever, called PG5. It took 170,000 chemical bonds to put it together. It's about 10 nanometres wide, and weighs the same as — Source

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Huge examples of normally small things The biggest recorded snowflake A ranch owner in Montana found the biggest snowflake ever in 1887. It was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, made up of lots of ice crystals and water droplets. CRACKED — Source

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