SortStack #783 — 2028-07-31

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A human red blood cell 8 µm

   Your body makes around 2 million of them every second to replace the ones that wear out after roughly 120 days.

2. A roasted coffee bean 8.5 mm

   A coffee 'bean' is actually the seed of a cherry-like fruit that grows on shrubs near the equator.

3. A standard house brick 22.5 cm

   Fired clay bricks have been made the same basic way for over 5,000 years, outlasting the empires that baked them.

4. A standard wine bottle 30 cm

   The 750ml bottle size is often linked to the lung capacity of a glassblower's single breath.

5. A skateboard 79 cm

   The kicktail that makes tricks possible was a 1970s accident that turned skating into an aerial sport.

6. Norway (length) 1.8K km

   Stretched out, Norway is so long that its northern tip is closer to the North Pole than to its own southern coast.

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