SortStack #1400 — 2030-04-09

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. 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.

2. A brilliant-cut one-carat diamond 200 mg

   The carat unit comes from carob seeds, which ancient gem traders used as counterweights on their balance scales.

3. A kiwi fruit 75 g

   Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.

4. An official MLB baseball 145 g

   Every game ball is hand-rubbed with mud from a secret spot on a New Jersey riverbank to take off the factory gloss.

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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