SortStack #1267 — 2029-11-27

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A large chicken egg 57 g

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

2. A regulation NBA basketball 620 g

   Each ball is covered in tens of thousands of tiny pebbled bumps, a texture invented so sweaty hands could keep their grip.

3. A full-size kitchen refrigerator 135 kg

   Refrigeration changed cuisine more than almost any invention; Einstein even co-patented a fridge with no moving parts in 1930.

4. 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.

5. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, fully fueled on the launch pad 549 t

   More than 95% of that is propellant; the reusable first-stage booster lands weighing almost nothing by comparison.

6. The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd, Russia 8K t

   Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, sword included, she is not anchored to her base — held in place by gravity alone.

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