SortStack #1967 — 2031-10-28
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A common housefly 12 mg
Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.
- A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g
A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.
- An adult human brain 1.4 kg
It is about 2% of your body weight yet burns roughly 20% of your energy — mostly just keeping billions of neurons ready to fire.
- The Liberty Bell 943 kg
Its famous crack was widened on purpose — an 1846 repair meant to stop the fracture instead ruined the bell's tone for good.
- An adult male Asian elephant 4 t
You can tell it from its African cousin by the much smaller ears and the twin domes on its forehead.
- 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.