San Alfonso Del Mar: The Largest Pool In The World

Located in Algorrobo, Chile. It is 1000 meters in length and covers 20 hectares with 66 million gallons of water from the Pacific Ocean.

Here's the official website.

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The Great JJ Outdoor Lamp

Basically, a huge desk lamp for the outdoors!

The Great JJ Outdoor (a replica of the famous Jac Jacobsen’s L-1 architect lamp which was designed in 1937) was designed by Centro Stile design studio with exaggerated proportions for an entirely surreal aesthetic.

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Largest Disco Ball In History: Paris' Nuit Blanche

French artist Michel de Broin built a massive disco ball that measures 23.6-feet in diameter and contains a whopping 1,000 individual mirrors. Then he attached the sphere to a crane 165-feet in the air and suspended it in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event in Paris. After directing spotlights at it from various locations around the city, de Broin hit a switch and let the party commence.

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Cool Larger Than Life Objects

Giant Soccer Ball
Nike likes to use giant soccer balls in their advertising campaigns.





Giant Razor
BIC used a giant razor and cut grass to advertise their products.





Giant Cigarette
Keep Britain Tidy workers installed a giant cigarette butt in London to highlight the fact that cigarette related litter affects 78 percent of streets in the UK.





Giant Fork
Metal sculpture peaking out of Lac Léman in front of the Alimentarium Museum in Vevey, Switzerland.





Giant Fried Eggs
Several large eggs were spread in Leeuwarden, Netherlands by Henk Hofstra as a part of his environmental art project, titled “Art Eggcident”.





Giant Beach Items
These giant objects were commissioned by the Province of Rimini.


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