SortStack #2610 — 2033-08-01

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A tournament chess pawn 3.7 cm

   Regulation sets fix the pawn's height relative to the squares so pieces never crowd the board.

2. A banana 26 cm

   The banana you eat is a sterile clone; nearly all exported ones are a single variety called the Cavendish.

3. A Bengal tiger (body length) 2.1 m

   A tiger's roar can be heard up to three kilometres away and carries frequencies low enough to paralyse prey with fear.

4. A sperm whale 16 m

   Its head holds the largest brain of any animal that has ever lived, weighing about as much as a small person.

5. The Millau Viaduct, France 2.5 km

   The tallest bridge in the world, its deck sometimes sits above the clouds that fill the valley below.

6. The Suez Canal 193 km

   It has no locks because the Mediterranean and Red Sea sit at almost exactly the same level.

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