SortStack #1392 — 2030-04-01

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A French baguette 63 cm

   French law defines the traditional baguette so strictly it can contain only flour, water, salt and yeast.

2. An acoustic guitar 99 cm

   The guitar's hollow body acts as an amplifier, resonating the strings' vibration into the air around it.

3. A concert grand piano 2.7 m

   A grand piano's strings pull with a combined tension of around 20 tonnes, held by a single cast-iron frame.

4. Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio 40 m

   It is struck by lightning several times a year, and repair crews keep spare soapstone to patch the damage.

5. The Grand Canyon (length) 446 km

   The Colorado River carved it over millions of years, exposing rock layers nearly two billion years old at the bottom.

6. Norway (length) 1.8K km

   Stretched out, Norway is so long that its northern tip is closer to the North Pole than to its own southern coast.

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