SortStack #91 — 2026-09-08
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single drop of water 50 mg
Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.
- An Etruscan shrew, the world's smallest mammal by mass 1.8 g
Its heart beats up to 1,500 times a minute, and it must eat about twice its body weight in insects every single day.
- A kiwi fruit 75 g
Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.
- A whole pineapple 1.2 kg
Pineapples take nearly two years to grow, and each plant produces just one fruit at a time.
- The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd, Russia 8K t
Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, sword included, she is not anchored to her base — held in place by gravity alone.
- The RMS Titanic 52K t
Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.