SortStack #2104 — 2032-03-13
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- A Venus flytrap snapping shut on a fly 102 ms
The plant can count: it only snaps after two trigger-hair touches within about 20 seconds, which keeps it from wasting energy on raindrops.
- A single sneeze, from sharp inhale to achoo 1.5 sec
A sneeze can launch droplets several metres, and you can't sneeze with your eyes open without effort — the blink is part of the reflex.
- The world's longest scheduled flight, Singapore to New York 19 h
The route covers about 15,300 km. The aircraft is configured with no economy class at all — partly so passengers survive the experience.
- 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 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'.
- The age of the oldest known figurative cave painting (Sulawesi) 51.1K years
The Indonesian rock art depicts wild pigs and human-like figures — painted tens of thousands of years before Lascaux's famous bulls.