- [Narrator] Size does matter. For a vast part of earth's history, making it big has always
been the natural end game. Giant insects of the carboniferous dominated the oxygen abundant
skies of early earth. Dinosaurs walked on earth's
biggest landmass, Pangaea. Empires of humans eventually stretched to ends of the known continents. Today, being big is still the gig, and here are the (video game tune) Robert Pershing Wadlow
might not be as big as the fabled cyclops of Greek mythology, but he sure came very close to one. At his tallest, he was
recorded to be almost nine feet or two point seven meters
tall, compared to the already above-average height of his
own father, Harold Wadlow, who was five feet eleven
and a half inches tall. Robert was able to grow this big due to a medical condition known as gigantism. This happens when the
pituitary gland grows to an abnormally large size
leading to an increased and continued production
of human growth hormones, even well into the afflicted
person's adulthood. Can you even imagine
wearing a shoe this big just to support your own gangly height? Sadly, due to this very condition, Robert Wadlow was only able
to live a very short life. Despite intensive medical treatment, a subsequent infection due
to his blistered ankles eventually caused his death on after only living for 22 years. - During the Cold War Era,
aviation engineers from the Soviet Union designed and
built the Antonov AN-225 also known as the Mriya. Today, it's considered as
the largest winged aircraft ever built, separate from the
peculiar-looking Airlander 10, which as an airship, would technically be the largest flying vehicle ever. The Antonov AN-225 has
a length of 84 meters, wingspan of 88.4 meters and a height of 18.1 meters. At maximum capacity, including
it's fuel and own weight, it can carry up to 640 thousand kilograms. By comparison, the most
iconic American commercial aviation workhorse, the Boeing 747, has a maximum length of 76 meters, general wingspan of 68 meters, and a height of 19 meters. It has a maximum takeoff
weight of 447,700 kilograms. This giant aircraft
was first built in 1985 and flew in 1988. With the original intent
of using it as the main transport vehicle for
the Buran space plane. When the Buran Space Program was scrapped, it was then repurposed as a
heavy cargo transport plane and continues to do so in
today's post-Cold War Era Russia. - In terms of gross, leasable
area, the record of the largest and widest mall
in the world goes to the New South China Mall. At 6.46 million square feet, or 600,153 square meters, it kicks another gigantic mall in China, the six million square
feet Golden Resources Mall out of the top list. To give you a perspective on just how big the Vatican City, an official
country in it's own right, can fit snugly with vast areas to spare right inside the mall with it's smaller 4.7 million square feet of land. It's literally a mall that's
bigger than an entire country. The catch is that while it
has been open since 2005, it never really became the
bustling mega shopping center that it was designed to be. It currently has very few occupants, with 99% of the rentable
stalls completely empty. This means that the New South China Mall is also officially the
biggest still operational ghost mall in the world. - Chile was home to the largest
outdoor swimming pool by San Alfonso del Mar Resort up until 2015. And it's no surprise because
of the Humboldt Current, which brings in cold, subarctic
surface water northward. This pool is a great way
to take a swim without literally getting chilly in Chile. It's over a kilometer
long, covering an area of 81 thousand square meters
with a depth of 35 meters. That's equivalent to more than Olympic-size swimming pools. Because of its immense size, it's basically impossible to fill the pool or maintain it using traditional methods. Instead, it sucks water
from the sea beside it using a specially
designed filtration system pumping it out into the
pool ready for public use. Annoyingly, you can't swim it's length, but instead, you'll find people
kayaking or boating on it with only a few sections,
like that pyramid, being open for swimmers. Egypt's Crystal Lagoon is officially the largest crystalline lagoon at around 98 thousand square meters in area, however it's essentially an
artificial beach by design. Unlike the sealed and
enclosed platforms of San Alfonso del Mar, the developer, City Stars Sharm El
Sheik, says it gets its salt water supply from wells
in the middle of the desert that are otherwise useless, allowing for a tropical
crystalline lagoon in the desert. Before I reveal the next example, you should subscribe if
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on some amazing knowledge that could have filled your brain. Now, let's get back to it. On January, in 1879, a baby
was born in Seville, Ohio who would eventually
become the biggest infant ever born on earth. Human infants, on average,
are born with a height of and weight of This male baby, however,
had a height and weight of respectively, essentially two
times heavier than average. This giant baby's mother was
none other than Anna Bates, the famed Canadian Giantess. She herself had an impressive height of Her child was the second one to be born, with the first one born in 1872. As impressive as the
size of this infant was, he never made it past his infancy. Only 11 hours after he was born, he died after succumbing
to unknown complications. While this baby holds the tallest newborn infant record to date, the record of the heaviest
birth eventually went to an Italian boy in 1955,
who had an official recorded weight of 10.2 kilograms. - Mount Everest. (voiceover) Even though the answer is obvious, this Himalayan mountain
peak will still be holding the record as the highest
mountain on planet Earth, at least for a couple more million years. Official records put its
highest point at 8848 meters, which makes it not just a
challenging mountain to trek, but also a potentially dangerous
and deadly one as well. The trail to the summit is, right now, literally scattered with
the remains of those who never made it back alive. Current trekkers are unable to
retrieve the bodies as well, due to the efforts and logistics required. And with the thin atmosphere on top, no helicopter can reach
them to provide assistance. The spectacular summit of
Mount Everest was formed approximately 60 million years ago, when the fast-drifting
India tectonic plate crashed northwards into
the Euro-Asia plate. The ends of the two plates were pushed upwards with such slow gradual force, that it went as high as it is today. - The Regio Design XXL
Chopper is currently the largest mountable
motorcycle in the world. It has a length of 9.7 meters long, and is powered by a 5000 CC 5.7 liter V8 Chevrolet engine with a power of 280 horsepower. This monster of a bike
was first introduced by Fabio Reggiani at the
Motor Bike Expo in 2012 where it officially broke
the record previously held by the Monster Cycle. A six meter long, 1.35 ton beast bike built by Gregory Dunham. To give you a better idea on how monstrous these bikes really are, even heavier cruiser motorcycles only have a typical length of 2.5 meters which makes both of these bikes several times larger and heavier. Rated at about 280 horsepower, the Regio Design XXL Chopper
can run with its tractor wheels at a top speed of 65 miles,
or 104 kilometers per hour. Fabio's design team was
comprised of 25 members and it took seven months to
construct the bike from scratch. - It's no surprise that the
blue whale takes the cake as the biggest living
animal that ever existed on the planet, but on land, the largest title goes to
the African Bush Elephant. An average adult male
African Bush Elephant has an average height of 3.2 meters and a weight of six tons. One of the largest ones
recorded even grew to four meters and weighed ten tons, which was first seen and
recorded in a photograph in 1974. Compare that to your
average Toyota Corolla, which can probably be easily squished by one of these elephants
with their relatively light 1.3 ton body weight. African Bush Elephants primarily live in plains and grasslands, though they can also be
found in a wide variety of African terrain such as woodlands, mountain slopes, and semi-arid deserts. Due to their great size, they
have no natural predators but humans have consistently
hunted and poached them for their prize tusks. - Bagger might sound
like a boring occupation, but it is actually the name
of a series of colossal bucket wheel excavators
that are commonly known as the largest drivable machines ever built. Perhaps the most famous is the Bagger 288. It's a 135 thousand ton metal behemoth previously used at the
Hambach strip mine in Germany. It had been in operation since 1978, capable of excavating 240 thousand tons of coal every single day. Some decades later, this version was eventually
superseded by Bagger 293, which has an increased
weight of 142 thousand tons, passing on the current record to it. It was built in 1995 and is
now used in the same location where Bagger 288 was previously used. It should be noted that bagger
excavators hold the record as a vehicle without its own drive system. In other words, it relies on an external power source to move. For self-propelled vehicles, the title still goes to none other than NASA's space shuttle and Saturn V toting crawler transporter. - On July 31st, 2017, a viral
news article stated that members of the Wyoming State
Parks Department had discovered a vast network of tree
roots at the base of the Devil's Tower. This was doubled down
by similar news stories published that very same month that an ancient, petrified
tree trunk about the size of an entire mesa was
discovered in Tunisia. At the time, these two
botanical size records would have forever changed the history of life on our planet. There was however one very big caveat with these two announcements. Both of them were hoaxes. In the end, the Devil's Tower
wasn't the remains of an ancient tree and there were
no gigantic world trees on prehistoric Tunisian soil. Despite it looking
almost like a tree stump, scientists have concluded
that its formation must be because it's an eroded
remnant of laccolith. In geology, a laccolith
is a sheet intrusion that has been injected between two
layers of sedimentary rock. That being said, enormous
tree stumps do exist. At Kokomo, Indiana lies
the remains of an old tree, a very huge hollow stump that was measured with a circumference of 17.4 meters, 5.5 meters in width, and 3.6 in height. According to older newspapers
at the time of its discovery, the tree was estimated to have
been around 1500 years old, at least twice the
approximate age of Hyperion, the current largest living tree. Now, without referring to male body parts, Also, if you're craving for
more incredibly big things, check out our list for the
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