SortStack #364 — 2027-06-08
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single office staple 33 mg
Heavier than a grain of rice — staples are solid steel wire, and a standard strip glues 210 of them together.
- An adult house mouse 19 g
Male mice sing ultrasonic courtship songs too high-pitched for humans to hear, with repeated phrases like birdsong.
- A large chicken egg 57 g
An eggshell has up to 8,000 microscopic pores, letting the developing chick breathe right through the shell.
- The Liberty Bell 943 kg
Its famous crack was widened on purpose — an 1846 repair meant to stop the fracture instead ruined the bell's tone for good.
- A Tesla Model 3 1.8 t
Around a quarter of the car's entire mass is its battery pack, mounted in the floor for a racing-car center of gravity.
- An adult male orca 5 t
Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.