11 Things That Are Way Bigger Than You Realize
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“How tall are you?” Nobody ever answers that question truthfully, especially if you're younger and don't want people hitting you up to play basketball. And it's not just that question of size that people get wrong. It turns out that we're often surprised to learn that we basically judge the size of things like total garbage.
Part of that comes from viewing lots and lots of images. Those dudes you see playing basketball (they answered the question truthfully) always look bigger in person. Until you've seen a seven-footer in person, you don't know what that really means. Television and other media don't accurately represent it at all. You’ll crane your neck looking up in person for sure. Yet another reason to never get up from the couch.
Size really does matter for these 11 things that are way bigger than you ever thought. Spoiler: the Teletubbies were huge. Maybe not seven footers, but certainly far taller than you pictured.
![Giant Redwood trees can reach up to 400 feet. The tallest of these trees have been identified- but their locations are kept secret to avoid vandalism CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/4/795634.jpg)
Source: Live Science
![A Blue Whale's heart weighs over 400 pounds. It is about the size of a golf cart and can BE heard from over two miles away. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/2/795632.jpg)
Source: The Whaling Museum
![Wind turbine blades are about 200 feet long. I The turbines themselves are around 295 feet, about the height of the Statue of Liberty. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/1/795631.jpg)
![Michelangelo's David is over 17 feet tall. And weighs over 12,000 pounds. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/3/795633.jpg)
Source: Florence Museum
![The Teletubbies were giants. The smallest character, Po, was 6.6 feet tall and the largest character, Tinky Winky, was 10 feet tall. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/9/795629.jpg)
Source: Time Magazine
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/0/795630.jpg)
![This species of bat has a wingspan of over 5.5 feet Still, the golden-crowned flying fox only weighs up to 3 pounds CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/5/795625.jpg)
Source: Bat Conservation International
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/6/795626.jpg)
Source: Conde Nast Traveler
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/8/795628.jpg)
Source: IFL Science
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/4/795624.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![The sun is as big as one million earths. It also accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's mass. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/7/795627.jpg)
Source: Theplanets.org