SortStack #1292 — 2029-12-22
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- The Epsom Derby, Britain's most famous horse race 2.5 min
Workforce's 2010 record run covered the mile and a half at over 56 km/h — and the race has been run every year since 1780, even through both World Wars.
- La Tomatina, Spain's giant tomato fight 60 min
Around 120 tonnes of overripe tomatoes are hurled in Buñol each August; a firework marks the end and the streets are hosed down within hours.
- Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris 33.5 h
Lindbergh went without sleep so long he reported hallucinating ghostly figures in the cockpit somewhere over the Atlantic.
- A tiger's pregnancy 105 days
Cubs are born blind and helpless at around a kilogram — yet within two years they're apex predators ten times their mother's litter weight.
- The construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona (so far) 143.9 years
Begun in 1882 and still unfinished, it only received an official building permit in 2019 — Gaudí said 'my client is not in a hurry'.
- How long the Parthenon has been standing 2.5K years
It survived largely intact for over 2,000 years — until 1687, when a Venetian shell hit the gunpowder the Ottomans had stored inside.