Interesting Finds And Discoveries From Around The World (19 pics)

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This week, the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, met the world's smallest woman, Jyoti Amge:

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Sultan is 8'2" tall and Jyoti is 24 inches tall.

Here's another picture of their meeting:

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There are escalators that have tiny little plateaus halfway down:

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Dandelions can be really, really big:

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And safety pins can be huge:

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Maple leaves? MAPLE LEAVES? Oh yeah, they can be very, very tiny:

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While we're talking about big things, here's a fisherman with a giant tuna he caught off the coast of Nova Scotia:

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Somewhere out there are people with only one line on their hand:

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There's a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96 bags of human waste on that big pie in the sky:

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This is what a modern-day banana looks like next to a wild, predomesticated banana that used to be much more prevalent:

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In the '70s, Casio made a calculator that also had a lighter in it...a CALCULIGHTER:

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This is what it looks like if you excavate and cook all the cookie dough in your ice cream:

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The longest word in the English language is a doozy:

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Quadruple A batteries exist:

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This is what it looks like when molten steel hits the floor:

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Some fruit have stickers that tell you the perfect color to eat them:

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Some places have stop lights that let you know how much time is left before they turn green:

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This is what a pack of 110-year-old crayons looks like: