SortStack #1855 — 2031-07-08
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- 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.
- A house sparrow 28 g
House sparrows have followed humans to every continent except Antarctica — one pair even nested deep inside an English coal mine.
- 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.
- A 16-inch MacBook Pro 2.2 kg
Apple's obsession with grams runs deep: the original 1989 Macintosh Portable weighed more than three of these.
- 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.
- A classic yellow American school bus 11 t
The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.