SortStack #742 — 2028-06-20

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 whole Thanksgiving turkey 7.5 kg

   Wild turkeys can fly at up to 90 km/h in short bursts; the broad-breasted domestic birds on holiday tables cannot fly at all.

3. A giant Pacific octopus 30 kg

   It can squeeze its entire body through any gap larger than its beak — the only hard part it owns.

4. An adult male African lion 190 kg

   A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.

5. An upright piano 220 kg

   Inside is a cast-iron plate holding strings at a combined tension of roughly 18 tonnes of pull.

6. A fully loaded 18-wheeler semi-truck 36 t

   Fully loaded, a semi needs about 40% more stopping distance than a car — which is why truckers leave that gap you keep filling.

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