SortStack #2848 — 2034-03-27

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 honeybee 1.3 cm

   A honeybee beats its wings about 230 times per second, which is what gives it that distinctive buzz.

3. A standard paperclip 3.2 cm

   The familiar looped design, called the Gem clip, was never patented and has barely changed in over a century.

4. A tournament chess pawn 3.7 cm

   Regulation sets fix the pawn's height relative to the squares so pieces never crowd the board.

5. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 5.9 km

   You can walk from tropical jungle to arctic glaciers on its slopes, passing through five climate zones in days.

6. The Suez Canal 193 km

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

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