SortStack #1910 — 2031-09-01

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A standard house brick 22.5 cm

   Fired clay bricks have been made the same basic way for over 5,000 years, outlasting the empires that baked them.

2. A skateboard 79 cm

   The kicktail that makes tricks possible was a 1970s accident that turned skating into an aerial sport.

3. A blue whale 28 m

   The largest animal ever known, its heart alone is the size of a small car and beats just a few times a minute.

4. The island of Crete (length) 260 km

   Home to Europe's oldest known city, Crete's Minoan palaces had running water and flushing toilets 3,500 years ago.

5. The Grand Canyon (length) 446 km

   The Colorado River carved it over millions of years, exposing rock layers nearly two billion years old at the bottom.

6. Norway (length) 1.8K km

   Stretched out, Norway is so long that its northern tip is closer to the North Pole than to its own southern coast.

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