SortStack #1141 — 2029-07-24

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single sesame seed 3 mg

   Sesame is one of humanity's oldest oil crops, domesticated in South Asia more than 3,000 years ago.

2. A AA alkaline battery 24 g

   Billions of AA cells are produced worldwide every year, making it the planet's most popular battery size.

3. A large chicken egg 57 g

   An eggshell has up to 8,000 microscopic pores, letting the developing chick breathe right through the shell.

4. A liter of water 1 kg

   The kilogram was originally defined in the 1790s as the mass of exactly this much water — the tie was only fully broken in 2019.

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. An adult blue whale 140 t

   The largest animal ever known has a heart the size of a small car, and its calves gain roughly 90 kg per day on milk alone.

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