SortStack #1638 — 2030-12-03

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single drop of water 50 mg

   Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.

2. A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g

   Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.

3. A McDonald's Big Mac 220 g

   The Economist uses Big Mac prices to compare currency values worldwide — the famously tongue-in-cheek 'Big Mac Index'.

4. An adult male African lion 190 kg

   A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.

5. Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t

   Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.

6. An adult male sperm whale 45 t

   Its clicks reach about 230 decibels — the loudest animal sound on Earth — and a third of its body is one giant sonar-focusing nose.

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