SortStack #434 — 2027-08-17

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. 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.

2. A single drop of water 50 mg

   Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.

3. A AAA alkaline battery 11.5 g

   Despite the tiny package, a fresh AAA stores enough energy to hoist an adult human several meters into the air.

4. An adult brown rat 350 g

   Rats emit ultrasonic giggles when tickled and come back for more — research that helped earn an Ig Nobel Prize.

5. A regulation NBA basketball 620 g

   Each ball is covered in tens of thousands of tiny pebbled bumps, a texture invented so sweaty hands could keep their grip.

6. An adult male wild boar 90 kg

   Wild boars are thriving so well they have spread or been introduced to every continent except Antarctica.

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