SortStack #574 — 2028-01-04

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

2. A regulation golf ball 46 g

   The dimples — usually 300 to 500 of them — cut drag so effectively that a smooth ball would fly only about half as far.

3. A kiwi fruit 75 g

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

4. An adult Chihuahua 1.8 kg

   The world's smallest dog breed is named after a Mexican state and descends from the Techichi, a companion dog of the Toltecs.

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. The Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane at maximum takeoff weight 640 t

   The heaviest aircraft ever built was destroyed in Ukraine in 2022; 'Mriya' means 'dream' in Ukrainian.

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