SortStack #2307 — 2032-10-02
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- Sunlight travelling from the Sun's surface to Earth 8.3 min
If the Sun vanished right now, we'd keep seeing it — and orbiting it — for another 8 minutes and 20 seconds before noticing anything.
- The film 'Gone with the Wind', with overture and intermission 4 h
Still the longest film ever to win Best Picture — and adjusted for inflation, it remains the highest-grossing film of all time.
- One full rotation of Earth on its axis 23.9 h
A true rotation takes 23 hours 56 minutes — the extra 4 minutes of our day come from Earth also moving along its orbit and needing to catch up to the Sun.
- 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 construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza 20 years
Herodotus and modern estimates agree on roughly two decades — meaning workers placed a multi-tonne block about every five minutes of daylight.
- The Berlin Wall standing, from construction to fall 28.2 years
Since 2018, the Wall has been down longer than it ever stood — and more of it now sits in museums worldwide than in Berlin.