SortStack #2870 — 2034-04-18

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A black garden ant worker 1.5 mg

   Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their own body weight — the square-cube law makes tiny bodies absurdly strong for their size.

2. A single drop of water 50 mg

   Pharmacists standardized the 'drop' centuries ago: twenty drops make roughly one milliliter.

3. The Hope Diamond 9.1 g

   The famous blue gem glows an eerie red-orange for minutes after exposure to ultraviolet light — a quirk of trace boron inside.

4. A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g

   Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.

5. 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.

6. An adult blue whale 140 t

   The largest animal ever known has a heart the size of a small car, and its calves gain roughly 90 kg per day on milk alone.

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