SortStack #2618 — 2033-08-09

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A black garden ant worker 1.5 mg

   Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their own body weight — the square-cube law makes tiny bodies absurdly strong for their size.

2. A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g

   Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.

3. An adult brown rat 350 g

   Rats emit ultrasonic giggles when tickled and come back for more — research that helped earn an Ig Nobel Prize.

4. An adult male African lion 190 kg

   A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.

5. The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd, Russia 8K t

   Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, sword included, she is not anchored to her base — held in place by gravity alone.

6. The Golden Gate Bridge 805K t

   Its two main cables contain enough wire to circle the Earth three times, and painting crews never actually finish — they cycle forever.

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