SortStack #2191 — 2032-06-08

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg

   Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.

2. An adult Dalmatian 25 kg

   Dalmatian puppies are born completely white; their famous spots only appear after a few weeks.

3. A Holstein dairy cow 680 kg

   A productive dairy cow gives about 30 liters of milk a day — and burps enough methane to matter in climate accounting.

4. An adult hippopotamus 1.5 t

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

5. 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.

6. The Empire State Building 331K t

   Built in just 410 days during the Depression, it sat so empty at first that New Yorkers dubbed it the 'Empty State Building'.

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