SortStack #2701 — 2033-10-31

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A standard wine bottle 30 cm

   The 750ml bottle size is often linked to the lung capacity of a glassblower's single breath.

2. 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.

3. A yellow school bus 13.7 m

   That specific shade, 'school bus yellow', was chosen in 1939 because it stays visible in dim dawn light.

4. The Leaning Tower of Pisa 58 m

   It began tilting during construction in the 1170s because of soft ground, and engineers only stabilised it in 2001.

5. Chile (length) 4.4K km

   So long and thin it spans 38 degrees of latitude, from the driest desert on Earth to icy glaciers in the south.

6. The Pan-American Highway (length) 30K km

   It runs almost pole to pole but for one gap: the roadless Darien jungle between Panama and Colombia.

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