SortStack #384 — 2027-06-28
By size · Order from shortest to longest.
- A roasted coffee bean 8.5 mm
A coffee 'bean' is actually the seed of a cherry-like fruit that grows on shrubs near the equator.
- An acoustic guitar 99 cm
The guitar's hollow body acts as an amplifier, resonating the strings' vibration into the air around it.
- A Brachiosaurus (length) 22 m
It held its neck high like a giraffe, possibly needing a heart of enormous power to pump blood up to its brain.
- Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur 679 m
The second-tallest building on Earth, its faceted glass facade echoes patterns from traditional Malaysian crafts.
- Mont Blanc, the Alps 4.8 km
Its summit is buried under permanent ice so thick that the official height changes slightly with the snow each year.
- The Grand Canyon (length) 446 km
The Colorado River carved it over millions of years, exposing rock layers nearly two billion years old at the bottom.