SortStack #2219 — 2032-07-06
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single kernel of corn 300 mg
Each kernel is botanically a complete fruit, and a typical ear carries an even number of rows — most often sixteen.
- A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g
A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.
- 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.
- An adult giant panda 110 kg
Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating bamboo because they digest only about a fifth of what they swallow.
- An adult male African lion 190 kg
A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.
- The RMS Titanic 52K t
Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.