SortStack #2575 — 2033-06-27

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A single poppy seed 1.3 mm

   It takes roughly 3,000 poppy seeds to make a single gram, which is why they scatter so easily off a bagel.

2. A hen's egg 5.5 cm

   An eggshell has up to 17,000 tiny pores that let the developing chick breathe through the surface.

3. Mount Everest 8.8 km

   Its summit is made of marine limestone, lifted from an ancient seabed, so the top of the world was once underwater.

4. A marathon course 42.2 km

   The odd distance was fixed in 1908 so the London race could start at Windsor Castle and finish before the royal box.

5. The Grand Canyon (length) 446 km

   The Colorado River carved it over millions of years, exposing rock layers nearly two billion years old at the bottom.

6. The Yellow River, China (length) 5.5K km

   Nicknamed 'China's Sorrow', its devastating floods have killed more people than perhaps any other natural feature.

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