SortStack #2688 — 2033-10-18

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. A compact disc 15 g

   A CD's spiral data track is less than a micrometer wide and would stretch about five kilometers if unwound.

3. An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg

   Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.

4. 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.

5. A Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle 365 kg

   Harley once tried to trademark its V-twin engine's 'potato-potato' exhaust rumble, then dropped the case in 2000.

6. An adult male white rhinoceros 2.3 t

   The 'white' is likely a mistranslation of the Dutch 'wijd', meaning wide — describing its broad, lawn-mowing mouth.

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