SortStack #2573 — 2033-06-25
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- A lightning flash from start to finish 198 ms
What looks like one bolt is usually several return strokes in a row, heating the air to around 30,000°C — five times hotter than the Sun's surface.
- a-ha's 'Take On Me' 3.8 min
The Norwegian band recorded it three times before it became a hit — the famous pencil-sketch video took 16 weeks of rotoscoping by hand.
- Jeff Bezos' first Blue Origin spaceflight, launch to landing 10.2 min
The 2021 flight carried both the oldest and youngest people to reach space at the time: 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
- The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 25 days
The world's largest arts festival stages over 3,000 shows — by ticket sales it trails only the Olympics and the football World Cup.
- 'Logistics', the longest film ever made 35.7 days
The Swedish experimental film follows a pedometer's supply chain in reverse, in real time, from a Stockholm shop back to a Chinese factory.
- Mike the Headless Chicken's life after losing his head 1.5 years
The 1945 axe missed Mike's brain stem; fed by eyedropper, he toured sideshows and his Colorado hometown still throws him an annual festival.