SortStack #1063 — 2029-05-07

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A golf ball 4.3 cm

   A golf ball has 300 to 500 dimples; they cut drag and roughly double how far a struck ball will fly.

2. A classic incandescent light bulb 11 cm

   Its glowing filament reaches around 2,500 degrees Celsius, yet wastes most of its energy as heat, not light.

3. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 5.9 km

   You can walk from tropical jungle to arctic glaciers on its slopes, passing through five climate zones in days.

4. The Mariana Trench (depth) 11 km

   If Everest were dropped into it, the peak would still sit more than two kilometres below the surface.

5. The Panama Canal 85 km

   Ships are lifted 26 metres above sea level by locks, then lowered again, crossing a continent without touching the ocean between.

6. The Amazon River (length) 6.4K km

   It discharges so much water that it freshens the Atlantic Ocean more than 100 kilometres out from its mouth.

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