SortStack #84 — 2026-09-01
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g
Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.
- An official MLB baseball 145 g
Every game ball is hand-rubbed with mud from a secret spot on a New Jersey riverbank to take off the factory gloss.
- An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg
Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.
- A standard car tire, without the rim 10 kg
About a quarter of a tire's mass is not rubber at all — it is steel belts and textile cord hidden inside the carcass.
- A Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle 365 kg
Harley once tried to trademark its V-twin engine's 'potato-potato' exhaust rumble, then dropped the case in 2000.
- An adult male African bush elephant 6 t
The largest land animal walks almost silently — its foot pads expand and absorb sound like cushioned trainers.