SortStack #2898 — 2034-05-16
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single kernel of corn 300 mg
Each kernel is botanically a complete fruit, and a typical ear carries an even number of rows — most often sixteen.
- A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g
A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.
- An official MLB baseball 145 g
Every game ball is hand-rubbed with mud from a secret spot on a New Jersey riverbank to take off the factory gloss.
- A large cast-iron skillet 2.5 kg
Well-seasoned cast iron is essentially a natural nonstick polymer baked onto metal; some American pans have been in daily use since the 1800s.
- An adult male giraffe 1.2 t
A giraffe's heart generates about double the blood pressure of most mammals to push blood two meters up its neck to the brain.
- The Golden Gate Bridge 805K t
Its two main cables contain enough wire to circle the Earth three times, and painting crews never actually finish — they cycle forever.