18 Things Whose Sizes We Weren’t Prepared to See

Pictures can be deceiving to the extreme. Sometimes photos can trick us into believing that we know how big or small something is in reality. Perspective can fool us, so we’ve prepared some tricky pictures that reveal the real sizes of various things.

1. The size of a passenger ship, Zaandam

2. “Quetzalcoatlus”

3. “The famous dome of the Duomo di Firenze, Florence, Italy”

4. “The biggest garlic clove I’ve ever seen!”

5. “A bus, for size,” the machine is called the Caterpillar 797, designed to carry loads up to 400 tons.

It is mainly used in mining industries.

6. “An 800-year-old cactus we found while hiking hills in Mexico”

7. “Another massive iceberg in Newfoundland”

8. “I bought a prawn the size of a dinner plate.”

9. “Hummingbird feet are smaller than the average water droplets.”

10. “5-day-old hedgehogs”

11. “This small robin egg I got”

12. “I found the smallest frog I’ve ever seen.”

13. “My ’world’s smallest’ Etch-A-Sketch featuring a very badly drawn snoo.”

14. “My father just brought me the smallest phone in the world.”

15. “My friend’s giant sunflower”

16. “Baby octopus, thumb for scale”

17. “I didn’t realize how big traffic lights were.”

18. “The smallest house in Great Britain — my girlfriend in front is only 5 feet.”

What was the last thing that surprised you with its appearance? Tell us in the comments.