SortStack #2758 — 2033-12-27

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An adult house mouse 19 g

   Male mice sing ultrasonic courtship songs too high-pitched for humans to hear, with repeated phrases like birdsong.

2. A full-size kitchen refrigerator 135 kg

   Refrigeration changed cuisine more than almost any invention; Einstein even co-patented a fridge with no moving parts in 1930.

3. Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t

   Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.

4. A fully equipped fire engine 18 t

   Around 2,000 liters of onboard water account for a chunk of the heft — plus ladders, hoses, and hydraulic rescue tools.

5. A fully loaded 18-wheeler semi-truck 36 t

   Fully loaded, a semi needs about 40% more stopping distance than a car — which is why truckers leave that gap you keep filling.

6. A Boeing 777-300ER airliner at maximum takeoff weight 351.5 t

   Each of its GE90 engines is so wide that a Boeing 737 fuselage could very nearly fit inside the cowling.

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