SortStack #2020 — 2031-12-20
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- A qualifying rodeo bull ride 8 sec
Riders must stay on with one hand for the full count to score at all — touching the bull or themselves with the free hand means instant disqualification.
- The Wright brothers' first powered flight 12 sec
The 1903 flight covered just 36.5 metres — shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. Within 66 years, humans were on the Moon.
- The film 'Gone with the Wind', with overture and intermission 4 h
Still the longest film ever to win Best Picture — and adjusted for inflation, it remains the highest-grossing film of all time.
- Holi, the Hindu festival of colours 2 days
It opens with the Holika bonfire at night and erupts into colour-throwing the next day — the powders were traditionally made from flowers and herbs.
- An African elephant's pregnancy 1.8 years
The longest gestation of any land mammal produces a 100 kg calf that can walk within hours — and is looked after by the whole herd.
- The Cold War 43.9 years
Historians call it 'the long peace' — the superpowers never fought each other directly, but proxy wars touched nearly every continent.