SortStack #420 — 2027-08-03

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A kiwi fruit 75 g

   Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.

2. 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.

3. An adult North American beaver 20 kg

   The largest beaver dam ever found, in Alberta, Canada, stretches about 850 meters and is visible from space.

4. The London Eye observation wheel 2.1K t

   It was meant to stand for just five years when it opened in 2000; instead it became the UK's most popular paid attraction.

5. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 100K t

   A floating city of about 5,000 people, it can sail more than 20 years between refuelings of its nuclear reactors.

6. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai 500K t

   The world's tallest building is tall enough to watch the sunset at the base, ride the elevator up, and watch it set again.

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