SortStack #1274 — 2029-12-04
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- An adult house mouse 19 g
Male mice sing ultrasonic courtship songs too high-pitched for humans to hear, with repeated phrases like birdsong.
- A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g
Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.
- An average adult human, averaged across the whole world 62 kg
Researchers computed this from global census data; North America's average is about 20 kg heavier than Asia's.
- An adult male African lion 190 kg
A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.
- A Tesla Model 3 1.8 t
Around a quarter of the car's entire mass is its battery pack, mounted in the floor for a racing-car center of gravity.
- The London Eye observation wheel 2.1K t
It was meant to stand for just five years when it opened in 2000; instead it became the UK's most popular paid attraction.