SortStack #2247 — 2032-08-03
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single drop of water 50 mg
Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.
- A kiwi fruit 75 g
Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.
- An iPhone 15 Pro 187 g
Its titanium frame is the same alloy grade used in spacecraft and joint implants, trimming heft from earlier steel models.
- A Tesla Model 3 1.8 t
Around a quarter of the car's entire mass is its battery pack, mounted in the floor for a racing-car center of gravity.
- A southern elephant seal bull 3 t
Bulls can outweigh females several times over — among the most extreme size gaps of any mammal — and dive 1,500 m deep.
- The Golden Gate Bridge 805K t
Its two main cables contain enough wire to circle the Earth three times, and painting crews never actually finish — they cycle forever.