SortStack #2086 — 2032-02-24

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A whole Thanksgiving turkey 7.5 kg

   Wild turkeys can fly at up to 90 km/h in short bursts; the broad-breasted domestic birds on holiday tables cannot fly at all.

2. A standard Good Delivery gold bar, the kind in bank vaults 12.4 kg

   Smaller than a brick yet heavier than most pet dogs — gold is so dense this bar would fit in a shoebox with room to spare.

3. A whole wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 38 kg

   Italian banks accept aging Parmesan wheels as loan collateral, storing thousands of them in climate-controlled vaults.

4. An adult male western lowland gorilla 160 kg

   Silverbacks are several times stronger than a fit human, yet they eat almost nothing but plants and the occasional termite.

5. An adult hippopotamus 1.5 t

   Hippos cannot actually swim — they sink and gallop along the riverbed, surfacing to breathe every few minutes.

6. An Ohio-class nuclear submarine, submerged 18.8K t

   It displaces more than some WWII aircraft carriers and can stay underwater for months, limited mainly by the food supply.

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