70 Things That Are Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way Bigger Than Your Dumb Brain Thought They Were<\/p>\n
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Michelangelo’s David is VERY, VERY big:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a Ford F-650 truck is compared to a typical sized person:<\/p>\n
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And this is what a pick-up truck from 1985 looks like compared to the behemoths that are modern pick-up trucks:<\/p>\n
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This is how big Earth is compared to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot:<\/p>\n
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This is what the largest species of deer to ever roam the Earth, the Irish Elk, looked like compared to some humans:<\/p>\n
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This is what the foundation of a skyscraper looks like:<\/p>\n
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This is what a lion’s fang looks like compared to a cat’s fang:<\/p>\n
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This is how big the scoreboard at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium is:<\/p>\n
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And this is how huge the jumbotron at AT&T Stadium is:<\/p>\n
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The Statue Of Liberty’s crown is enormous:<\/p>\n
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And so is the statue of Honest Abe at the Lincoln Memorial:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:<\/p>\n
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This is what a gorilla’s hand looks like compared with our tiny hands:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a dalmatian pelican is compared to a human:<\/p>\n
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This is what one of Shaq’s championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:<\/p>\n
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This is what Meryal Waterpark, home of the world’s tallest waterslide, looking like while it was under construction in Qatar:<\/p>\n
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This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is:<\/p>\n
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This is what the skeleton of the tallest man who ever lived, 8’1″ Robert Wadlow, looked like:<\/p>\n
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And this is how big an average-size human is compared with a bunch of different bears and Robert Wadlow:<\/p>\n
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A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a moose’s tooth is:<\/p>\n
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Speaking of teeth, this is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:<\/p>\n
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And here’s how big the jaws of the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, were compared to a human:<\/p>\n
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This is how big an eagle’s talons are:<\/p>\n
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Tires can be very, very big:<\/p>\n
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Recently, a Russian drone attacked a gigantic radiation confinement tower at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, inflicting damage that required some repairs:<\/p>\n
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Here’s a closer look at the people fixing the damage, to give you a better scale of the whole thing:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:<\/p>\n
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This was how big the cake for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip’s wedding was:<\/p>\n
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This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:<\/p>\n
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The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a blue whale’s heart is compared with a human being:<\/p>\n
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This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:<\/p>\n
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This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:<\/p>\n
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This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear’s footprint:<\/p>\n
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This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:<\/p>\n
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This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:<\/p>\n
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And this is how big a wolf’s paw print is compared with a human hand:<\/p>\n
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This is what the world’s tallest man, Sultan K\u00f6sen, looks like next to his wife:<\/p>\n
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Highway signs are gigantic:<\/p>\n
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This is what the biggest leaf ever found in the Amazon Rainforest looks like compared with an adult man:<\/p>\n
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This is what Brian Shaw<\/a>, four-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:<\/p>\n 43.<\/p>\n Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a pipsqueak standing next to Wilt Chamberlain and Andr\u00e9 the Giant:<\/p>\n 44.<\/p>\n This is how gigantic the femur of a sauropod dinosaur is:<\/p>\n 45.<\/p>\n This is how big Japan is compared with the East Coast of the United States:<\/p>\n 46.<\/p>\n This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:<\/p>\n 47.<\/p>\n This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world compared to some cars:<\/p>\n 48.<\/p>\n This is how big a moose is compared with a van:<\/p>\n 49.<\/p>\n Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:<\/p>\n 50.<\/p>\n