SortStack #777 — 2028-07-25
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- An unfed female mosquito 2.5 mg
After a full blood meal a mosquito can double or even triple her weight — and still fly away with the loot.
- A Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle 365 kg
Harley once tried to trademark its V-twin engine's 'potato-potato' exhaust rumble, then dropped the case in 2000.
- A Tesla Model 3 1.8 t
Around a quarter of the car's entire mass is its battery pack, mounted in the floor for a racing-car center of gravity.
- Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t
Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.
- The Empire State Building 331K t
Built in just 410 days during the Depression, it sat so empty at first that New Yorkers dubbed it the 'Empty State Building'.
- The Great Pyramid of Giza 5.8M t
Roughly 2.3 million stone blocks were stacked over about 20 years — averaging a block placed every few minutes of every workday.