SortStack #1581 — 2030-10-07

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A grain of rice 7 mm

   Rice feeds more than half the planet, and a single plant can yield thousands of these grains.

2. A great white shark 5.2 m

   Great whites can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 100 litres of water from hundreds of metres away.

3. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 5.9 km

   You can walk from tropical jungle to arctic glaciers on its slopes, passing through five climate zones in days.

4. The Mariana Trench (depth) 11 km

   If Everest were dropped into it, the peak would still sit more than two kilometres below the surface.

5. The island of Manhattan (length) 21.5 km

   The entire island was famously bought from Native inhabitants in 1626 for goods worth a tiny sum.

6. The Kiel Canal, Germany 98 km

   The world's busiest artificial waterway, it lets ships skip the long, stormy voyage around Denmark.

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