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32 Size Comparisons That Are Most Assuredly Not the Thief of Joy

July 21, 2024

Have you ever thought that something was massive, until you realize there’s something else out there that completely dwarfs it? It really widens your eyes and takes your breath away. Today, for instance, we found out that the crater made by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was six miles wide. That’s huge! Then we found out that the Vredefort crater in South Africa is 118 miles wide.

Pfft. That dinosaur killer was nothing!

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Giant Manta Rays can have up to a 29 foot long wingspan They can weigh over 5,300 pounds and live up to 40 years. 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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This is a comet next to Los Angeles. This comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, makes Los Angeles look tiny- but you could theoretically walk across it in an hour. 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 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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100,000,000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. 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 COM The Great Pyramid of Giza compared to an adult human. — 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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The Goliath birdeater tarantula is the largest spider in the world. It can weigh more than a newborn puppy. 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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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 — 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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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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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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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. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM THIS IS WHAT ONE BILLION DILLERS DOLLARS UNDERD - STATES WOULD LOOK LIKE One Billion Dollars Stack height One Million Dollars 19 feet 5 8 me terr OOT STACKED ON A UP TENNIS COURT, COMPARED TO A STACK OF ONE MILLION. — 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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All of the continents on Earth could fit inside the CRACKED.COM Pacific Ocean. — Source

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Alaska covers 663,300 square miles. GRACKED.COM It makes up about 17.8% of the United States' area. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE WORLD OF MINECRAFT HAS MORE SURFACE AREA THAN URANUS — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — 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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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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CRACKED.COM HERSULES the liger TOUR Hercules is the world's LIGERLIGER SON 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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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Michelangelo's David stands tall at nearly 17ft. Here he is undergoing restoration. — Source

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — Source

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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! — Source

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THE JUMBOTRON AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM AT&T STADIUM 160 ft 72 ft 1/07 BEING WASHED BY MEN IN BASKET CRANES. CRACKED.COM — Source

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

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CRACKED.COM This is the actual size of a wind turbine blade. — Source

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