SortStack #357 — 2027-06-01
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- The Hope Diamond 9.1 g
The famous blue gem glows an eerie red-orange for minutes after exposure to ultraviolet light — a quirk of trace boron inside.
- 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 iPhone 15 Pro 187 g
Its titanium frame is the same alloy grade used in spacecraft and joint implants, trimming heft from earlier steel models.
- A whole Thanksgiving turkey 7.5 kg
Wild turkeys can fly at up to 90 km/h in short bursts; the broad-breasted domestic birds on holiday tables cannot fly at all.
- An adult male African lion 190 kg
A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.
- 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.