SortStack #1418 — 2030-04-27
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- A qualifying rodeo bull ride 8 sec
Riders must stay on with one hand for the full count to score at all — touching the bull or themselves with the free hand means instant disqualification.
- Cooking a perfect soft-boiled egg 4.5 min
At high altitude it takes noticeably longer — water boils below 100°C up a mountain, which is why mountaineers complain about their eggs.
- A tiger's pregnancy 105 days
Cubs are born blind and helpless at around a kilogram — yet within two years they're apex predators ten times their mother's litter weight.
- The Cold War 43.9 years
Historians call it 'the long peace' — the superpowers never fought each other directly, but proxy wars touched nearly every continent.
- The main construction of Notre-Dame de Paris 97 years
The medieval build ran from 1163 to 1260 — yet after the 2019 fire, the cathedral was restored and reopened in just five years.
- The time since humans invented the wheel 5.5K years
Potter's wheels came before wheels for transport — and the oldest wooden wheel ever found, near Ljubljana, is about 5,150 years old.