SortStack #1288 — 2029-12-18

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single drop of water 50 mg

   Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.

2. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

3. A 16-inch MacBook Pro 2.2 kg

   Apple's obsession with grams runs deep: the original 1989 Macintosh Portable weighed more than three of these.

4. A Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle 365 kg

   Harley once tried to trademark its V-twin engine's 'potato-potato' exhaust rumble, then dropped the case in 2000.

5. An adult male giraffe 1.2 t

   A giraffe's heart generates about double the blood pressure of most mammals to push blood two meters up its neck to the brain.

6. An adult Tyrannosaurus rex 8.5 t

   'Sue', the most complete T. rex ever found, sold at auction in 1997 for $8.4 million and now has its own social media accounts.

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