SortStack #1372 — 2030-03-12

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A standard steel paperclip 1 g

   During WWII, Norwegians wore paperclips on their lapels as a quiet symbol of resistance against occupation.

2. An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg

   Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.

3. An adult giant panda 110 kg

   Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating bamboo because they digest only about a fifth of what they swallow.

4. A Thoroughbred racehorse 570 kg

   At full gallop a racehorse's heart pumps roughly 240 liters of blood per minute — ten times its resting rate.

5. The Statue of Liberty 204 t

   Her copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies; the green color is a patina that took roughly 30 years to develop.

6. 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.

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