SortStack #1624 — 2030-11-19

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A monarch butterfly 500 mg

   Despite weighing less than a paperclip, monarchs migrate up to 4,800 km from Canada to mountain forests in central Mexico.

2. A whole Thanksgiving turkey 7.5 kg

   Wild turkeys can fly at up to 90 km/h in short bursts; the broad-breasted domestic birds on holiday tables cannot fly at all.

3. 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.

4. An M1 Abrams main battle tank 62 t

   Despite the bulk it tops 65 km/h, powered by a jet-style gas turbine engine that can run on almost any fuel.

5. The International Space Station 420 t

   Assembled over 42 flights, it circles Earth 16 times a day at 28,000 km/h, so its crew sees 16 sunrises daily.

6. The Empire State Building 331K t

   Built in just 410 days during the Depression, it sat so empty at first that New Yorkers dubbed it the 'Empty State Building'.

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