SortStack #931 — 2028-12-26

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A monarch butterfly 500 mg

   Despite weighing less than a paperclip, monarchs migrate up to 4,800 km from Canada to mountain forests in central Mexico.

2. A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g

   Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.

3. The FIFA World Cup Trophy 6.2 kg

   Winners only keep a gold-plated replica; the 18-karat original stays with FIFA and gets each champion engraved on its base.

4. An average adult human, averaged across the whole world 62 kg

   Researchers computed this from global census data; North America's average is about 20 kg heavier than Asia's.

5. Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flying boat 113 t

   It held the record for largest wingspan of any aircraft until 2019, yet flew exactly once, in 1947 — for about 26 seconds.

6. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 100K t

   A floating city of about 5,000 people, it can sail more than 20 years between refuelings of its nuclear reactors.

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