SortStack #1119 — 2029-07-02

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A new wooden pencil 18 cm

   A single pencil can draw a line roughly 56 kilometres long before the graphite runs out.

2. An average adult human 1.8 m

   Humans have grown roughly 10 centimetres taller on average over the past 150 years thanks to better nutrition.

3. A small recreational sailboat 9.4 m

   Modern sails work like vertical wings, generating lift that lets boats sail faster than the wind itself.

4. The Empire State Building 443 m

   It was built in just 410 days during the Great Depression, rising about a floor a day at peak speed.

5. The Millau Viaduct, France 2.5 km

   The tallest bridge in the world, its deck sometimes sits above the clouds that fill the valley below.

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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