SortStack #1323 — 2030-01-22
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A medium pomegranate 290 g
A single pomegranate can hold over 600 juicy seeds, called arils, and the fruit stars in myths from Greece to Persia.
- A whole pineapple 1.2 kg
Pineapples take nearly two years to grow, and each plant produces just one fruit at a time.
- A large cast-iron skillet 2.5 kg
Well-seasoned cast iron is essentially a natural nonstick polymer baked onto metal; some American pans have been in daily use since the 1800s.
- An adult North American beaver 20 kg
The largest beaver dam ever found, in Alberta, Canada, stretches about 850 meters and is visible from space.
- A capybara, the world's largest rodent 50 kg
Capybaras are so famously chill that birds, monkeys, and even crocodilians perch and lounge on them like furniture.
- General Sherman, the giant sequoia in California 1.3K t
Earth's largest single tree by volume is still growing, adding roughly a good-sized ordinary tree's worth of wood every year.