SortStack #2132 — 2032-04-10

By duration · Order from shortest to longest.

Jeff Bezos' first Blue Origin spaceflight, launch to landing 10.2 min

The 2021 flight carried both the oldest and youngest people to reach space at the time: 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
The average adult's actual night of sleep 6.8 h

Smartphone-tracking studies put the global average well under the recommended eight hours — and humans sleep less than virtually any other primate.
The 1900 Paris Olympic Games 167 days

Spread thinly through the World's Fair, the Games were so disorganized that some winners died never knowing they had been Olympians.
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 era of the Crusades, from the first to the fall of Acre 194.9 years

Nine major crusades spanned 195 years — and the Fourth never reached the Holy Land at all, sacking Christian Constantinople instead.
The time since the last woolly mammoths died out 4K years

A dwarf population survived on Wrangel Island until about 2000 BC — meaning mammoths were alive while the Giza pyramids were already centuries old.