SortStack #2576 — 2033-06-28

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single grain of long-grain rice 25 mg

   Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and farmers cultivate over 100,000 distinct varieties of it.

2. An Etruscan shrew, the world's smallest mammal by mass 1.8 g

   Its heart beats up to 1,500 times a minute, and it must eat about twice its body weight in insects every single day.

3. An adult male grizzly bear 270 kg

   Before hibernation a grizzly can pack on more than a kilogram of fat per day, entering the den far heavier than in spring.

4. An adult male orca 5 t

   Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.

5. A classic yellow American school bus 11 t

   The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.

6. General Sherman, the giant sequoia in California 1.3K t

   Earth's largest single tree by volume is still growing, adding roughly a good-sized ordinary tree's worth of wood every year.

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