SortStack #2296 — 2032-09-21

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A black garden ant worker 1.5 mg

   Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their own body weight — the square-cube law makes tiny bodies absurdly strong for their size.

2. A common housefly 12 mg

   Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.

3. An adult human brain 1.4 kg

   It is about 2% of your body weight yet burns roughly 20% of your energy — mostly just keeping billions of neurons ready to fire.

4. The Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane at maximum takeoff weight 640 t

   The heaviest aircraft ever built was destroyed in Ukraine in 2022; 'Mriya' means 'dream' in Ukrainian.

5. The Eiffel Tower 10.1K t

   The iron grows in summer: heat expands the sun-facing side, leaning the top away from the sun and adding around 15 cm of height.

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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