SortStack #560 — 2027-12-21
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A common housefly 12 mg
Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.
- A whole pineapple 1.2 kg
Pineapples take nearly two years to grow, and each plant produces just one fruit at a time.
- The FIFA World Cup Trophy 6.2 kg
Winners only keep a gold-plated replica; the 18-karat original stays with FIFA and gets each champion engraved on its base.
- A full-size kitchen refrigerator 135 kg
Refrigeration changed cuisine more than almost any invention; Einstein even co-patented a fridge with no moving parts in 1930.
- A Steinway concert grand piano 480 kg
Each Steinway Model D takes about a year to build and contains over 12,000 individual parts.
- 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.