SortStack #329 — 2027-05-04
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A black garden ant worker 1.5 mg
Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their own body weight — the square-cube law makes tiny bodies absurdly strong for their size.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Statue of Liberty 204 t
Her copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies; the green color is a patina that took roughly 30 years to develop.
- The Great Pyramid of Giza 5.8M t
Roughly 2.3 million stone blocks were stacked over about 20 years — averaging a block placed every few minutes of every workday.