how does this file get 6 times smaller, same # of lines?

gistfile1.txt

$ ls -al out.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 jhannah  staff  14340349 Jan 30 12:33 out.txt
$ wc -l out.txt
     554 out.txt
$ sort out.txt | uniq > out.unique.txt
$ ls -al out.unique.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 jhannah  staff  2857273 Jan 30 12:42 out.unique.txt
$ wc -l out.unique.txt
     554 out.unique.txt
     
     
WHOAH solved (sort of)... sort or uniq is chopping long lines!
e.g. a line with 33058 characters is now only 8190 lines long.

MacOS 10.12.2


Some of these lines are doozies

$ perl -E 'say length($_)' -n out.txt | sort -rn | head
345943
131963
131963
131963
131963
131963
131963
131963
131963
131963