SortStack #483 — 2027-10-05

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A large chicken egg 57 g

   An eggshell has up to 8,000 microscopic pores, letting the developing chick breathe right through the shell.

2. A round loaf of sourdough bread 800 g

   Some sourdough starters are family heirlooms over 150 years old, kept alive by daily feedings of flour and water.

3. An adult male grizzly bear 270 kg

   Before hibernation a grizzly can pack on more than a kilogram of fat per day, entering the den far heavier than in spring.

4. An adult male white rhinoceros 2.3 t

   The 'white' is likely a mistranslation of the Dutch 'wijd', meaning wide — describing its broad, lawn-mowing mouth.

5. A southern elephant seal bull 3 t

   Bulls can outweigh females several times over — among the most extreme size gaps of any mammal — and dive 1,500 m deep.

6. Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t

   Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.

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