SortStack #318 — 2027-04-23
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A pair of white Nike Air Force 1 sneakers $110
Released in 1982 as a basketball shoe, the Air Force 1 still sells millions of pairs a year — virtually unchanged in design for four decades.
- A French Bulldog puppy from a breeder $4.5K
Frenchies can't swim and most can't give birth naturally — nearly all are delivered by C-section — yet they became America's most popular breed.
- Thirty seconds of advertising time during the Super Bowl $8M
In 1967, a Super Bowl ad cost about $42,000. Brands now spend millions more on celebrity talent and production than on the airtime itself.
- A Sixties Ferrari 250 GTO sold at auction $48.4M
Only 36 were built, and the owners' club is so exclusive that some sales are vetted. Private GTO deals have reportedly topped even the public auction record.
- One B-2 Spirit stealth bomber $737M
Each B-2 must be kept in climate-controlled hangars to protect its radar-absorbing skin. Only 21 were ever built, each with its own name like 'Spirit of Missouri.'
- Building the US Interstate Highway System, in the dollars of its day $114B
Championed by Eisenhower after he saw Germany's autobahns, the system took 35 years to declare complete — the original estimate was a fraction of the final bill.