SortStack #189 — 2026-12-15

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

2. A stick of butter 113 g

   US butter sticks come in two shapes: the stubby 'Western' stick exists because West Coast dairies bought different molds.

3. 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.

4. An adult human brain 1.4 kg

   It is about 2% of your body weight yet burns roughly 20% of your energy — mostly just keeping billions of neurons ready to fire.

5. A classic yellow American school bus 11 t

   The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.

6. Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t

   Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.

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