SortStack #1022 — 2029-03-27
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A black garden ant worker 1.5 mg
Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their own body weight — the square-cube law makes tiny bodies absurdly strong for their size.
- A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g
A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.
- An iPhone 15 Pro 187 g
Its titanium frame is the same alloy grade used in spacecraft and joint implants, trimming heft from earlier steel models.
- An adult red fox 5.2 kg
Red foxes may use Earth's magnetic field to aim their famous pouncing dives — they prefer striking toward the northeast.
- An upright piano 220 kg
Inside is a cast-iron plate holding strings at a combined tension of roughly 18 tonnes of pull.
- An adult male orca 5 t
Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.