SortStack #910 — 2028-12-05
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- 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.
- A FIFA regulation soccer ball 430 g
World Cup balls are tested in wind tunnels; the 2010 'Jabulani' was so smooth that goalkeepers complained it swerved unpredictably.
- A liter of water 1 kg
The kilogram was originally defined in the 1790s as the mass of exactly this much water — the tie was only fully broken in 2019.
- 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.
- A classic yellow American school bus 11 t
The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.
- The RMS Titanic 52K t
Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.