SortStack #2729 — 2033-11-28

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A single poppy seed 1.3 mm

   It takes roughly 3,000 poppy seeds to make a single gram, which is why they scatter so easily off a bagel.

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 ten-pin bowling pin 38 cm

   Pins are coated in tough plastic and weigh just enough to scatter dramatically yet stand back up reliably.

4. A reticulated python 6.6 m

   The world's longest snake, it kills by constriction, tightening with every breath its prey exhales.

5. The Suez Canal 193 km

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

6. New Zealand's South Island (length) 840 km

   It is home to fewer than two million people but more than ten times as many sheep.

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