SortStack #10 — 2026-06-19
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A single sheet of printer paper $0.01
A standard 500-sheet ream costs about five dollars — and the average office worker prints roughly 10,000 sheets a year.
- A full tank of gas for a midsize car in the US $45
About half the pump price of US gasoline is the crude oil itself — refining, distribution, and taxes split the rest.
- An Xbox Series S console $349
Microsoft has long sold consoles near or below manufacturing cost, betting on game sales and subscriptions to make the profit.
- A new MacBook Pro, base model $1.6K
Apple's first laptop ancestor, the 1989 Macintosh Portable, weighed over seven kilograms and cost the equivalent of more than $16,000 today.
- Stan, one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever found $31.8M
After the record 2020 sale, Stan's whereabouts were a mystery for years — he eventually surfaced as the future star of a new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi.
- 'Salvator Mundi,' the painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci $450.3M
The most expensive artwork ever sold was bought for about $1,000 at a 2005 estate sale. Since the 2017 auction, it has not been publicly seen.