SortStack #1406 — 2030-04-15

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A house dust mite 0.3 mm

   Millions live in the average mattress, feasting on flakes of dead skin, yet they are too small for the naked eye to see.

2. A golf ball 4.3 cm

   A golf ball has 300 to 500 dimples; they cut drag and roughly double how far a struck ball will fly.

3. A standard house brick 22.5 cm

   Fired clay bricks have been made the same basic way for over 5,000 years, outlasting the empires that baked them.

4. The International Space Station 109 m

   Orbiting Earth roughly every 90 minutes, its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.

5. New Zealand's South Island (length) 840 km

   It is home to fewer than two million people but more than ten times as many sheep.

6. The River Rhine (length) 1.2K km

   It has been a vital trade highway since Roman times, still carrying more cargo than any other river in Europe.

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