SortStack #2013 — 2031-12-13
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- An average human's reaction to a starting gun 252 ms
Athletics rules treat any sprint start faster than 100 milliseconds as a false start — it's considered humanly impossible to react that quickly.
- An evening at Wagner's opera 'Götterdämmerung', intervals included 5.5 h
It's only the finale: the full Ring cycle spans four operas over about 15 hours of music, and devotees attend all four nights in a row.
- Munich's Oktoberfest 17 days
Despite the name, most of it happens in September — and visitors drink roughly six to seven million litres of beer before it ends.
- Mike the Headless Chicken's life after losing his head 1.5 years
The 1945 axe missed Mike's brain stem; fed by eyedropper, he toured sideshows and his Colorado hometown still throws him an annual festival.
- The Berlin Wall standing, from construction to fall 28.2 years
Since 2018, the Wall has been down longer than it ever stood — and more of it now sits in museums worldwide than in Berlin.
- The construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona (so far) 143.9 years
Begun in 1882 and still unfinished, it only received an official building permit in 2019 — Gaudí said 'my client is not in a hurry'.