SortStack #721 — 2028-05-30

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single sesame seed 3 mg

   Sesame is one of humanity's oldest oil crops, domesticated in South Asia more than 3,000 years ago.

2. A brilliant-cut one-carat diamond 200 mg

   The carat unit comes from carob seeds, which ancient gem traders used as counterweights on their balance scales.

3. A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g

   A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.

4. A medium pomegranate 290 g

   A single pomegranate can hold over 600 juicy seeds, called arils, and the fruit stars in myths from Greece to Persia.

5. An adult male giraffe 1.2 t

   A giraffe's heart generates about double the blood pressure of most mammals to push blood two meters up its neck to the brain.

6. The Eiffel Tower 10.1K t

   The iron grows in summer: heat expands the sun-facing side, leaning the top away from the sun and adding around 15 cm of height.

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