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

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Michelangelo’s David is VERY, VERY big:

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This is how big a Ford F-650 truck is compared to a typical sized person:

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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:

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This is how big Earth is compared to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot:

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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:

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This is what the foundation of a skyscraper looks like:

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This is what a lion’s fang looks like compared to a cat’s fang:

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This is how big the scoreboard at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium is:

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And this is how huge the jumbotron at AT&T Stadium is:

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The Statue Of Liberty’s crown is enormous:

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And so is the statue of Honest Abe at the Lincoln Memorial:

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This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:

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This is what a gorilla’s hand looks like compared with our tiny hands:

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This is how big a dalmatian pelican is compared to a human:

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This is what one of Shaq’s championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:

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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:

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This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is:

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This is what the skeleton of the tallest man who ever lived, 8’1″ Robert Wadlow, looked like:

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And this is how big an average-size human is compared with a bunch of different bears and Robert Wadlow:

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A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:

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This is how big a moose’s tooth is:

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Speaking of teeth, this is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:

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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:

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This is how big an eagle’s talons are:

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Tires can be very, very big:

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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:

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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:

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This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:

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This was how big the cake for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip’s wedding was:

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This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:

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The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:

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This is how big a blue whale’s heart is compared with a human being:

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This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:

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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:

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This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear’s footprint:

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This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:

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This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:

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And this is how big a wolf’s paw print is compared with a human hand:

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This is what the world’s tallest man, Sultan Kösen, looks like next to his wife:

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Highway signs are gigantic:

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This is what the biggest leaf ever found in the Amazon Rainforest looks like compared with an adult man:

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This is what Brian Shaw, four-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:

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Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a pipsqueak standing next to Wilt Chamberlain and André the Giant:

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This is how gigantic the femur of a sauropod dinosaur is:

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This is how big Japan is compared with the East Coast of the United States:

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This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:

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This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world compared to some cars:

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This is how big a moose is compared with a van:

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Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:

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This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:

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This is what it looked like while Abraham Lincoln’s face was under construction during the making of Mount Rushmore:

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Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:

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This is the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity compared to some tiny helicopters:

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This is how thick one of the cables holding up the Golden Gate Bridge is:

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This is a BelAZ dump truck, the biggest dump truck in the world:

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And this is what a person looks like compared to the wheel of the BelAZ dump truck:

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This is what Antarctica looks like from space:

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This colorized picture of Ramses II’s Great Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt, taken circa 1865, shows just how enormous the colossal statues in front of the entrance are:

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This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:

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This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:

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This is how big a battleship, specifically the USS Iowa, is compared with a normal-size boat:

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Speaking of which, submarines are also really, really big:

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This is how big a giraffe’s leg is:

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This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close as the moon:

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This is what Niagara falls looks like from way, way above:

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This is what the USS Midway looks like compared to a person in a kayak:

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The is the one-time record holder for world’s heaviest hamburger:

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This is how big the tire on a 994 loader construction vehicle is:

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Elephant seals are really, really, really, really big:

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And dogs? Dogs can be gigantic: