SortStack #1911 — 2031-09-02

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

2. A front-loading washing machine 76 kg

   Much of the heft is a deliberate concrete counterweight — without it, the spin cycle would walk the machine across your floor.

3. An adult giant panda 110 kg

   Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating bamboo because they digest only about a fifth of what they swallow.

4. An adult male grizzly bear 270 kg

   Before hibernation a grizzly can pack on more than a kilogram of fat per day, entering the den far heavier than in spring.

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 RMS Titanic 52K t

   Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.

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