SortStack #774 — 2028-07-22

By duration · Order from shortest to longest.

One full rotation of the London Eye 30 min

It moves so slowly — about 0.9 km/h — that it usually doesn't stop to let passengers on; you simply step into the moving capsule.
The Titanic's sinking, from iceberg to going under 2.7 h

The ship's band famously kept playing on deck for most of it — and the iceberg itself had likely calved from a Greenland glacier years earlier.
The film 'Gone with the Wind', with overture and intermission 4 h

Still the longest film ever to win Best Picture — and adjusted for inflation, it remains the highest-grossing film of all time.
The average adult's actual night of sleep 6.8 h

Smartphone-tracking studies put the global average well under the recommended eight hours — and humans sleep less than virtually any other primate.
New Horizons' journey from Earth to Pluto 9.5 years

It left Earth as the fastest spacecraft ever launched — and Pluto was demoted from planet status just seven months into the trip.
The construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza 20 years

Herodotus and modern estimates agree on roughly two decades — meaning workers placed a multi-tonne block about every five minutes of daylight.