SortStack #1120 — 2029-07-03
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A common housefly 12 mg
Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.
- 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.
- A kiwi fruit 75 g
Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.
- An adult North American beaver 20 kg
The largest beaver dam ever found, in Alberta, Canada, stretches about 850 meters and is visible from space.
- A capybara, the world's largest rodent 50 kg
Capybaras are so famously chill that birds, monkeys, and even crocodilians perch and lounge on them like furniture.
- 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.