SortStack #2905 — 2034-05-23

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A regulation NBA basketball 620 g

   Each ball is covered in tens of thousands of tiny pebbled bumps, a texture invented so sweaty hands could keep their grip.

2. A capybara, the world's largest rodent 50 kg

   Capybaras are so famously chill that birds, monkeys, and even crocodilians perch and lounge on them like furniture.

3. An upright piano 220 kg

   Inside is a cast-iron plate holding strings at a combined tension of roughly 18 tonnes of pull.

4. An adult male orca 5 t

   Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.

5. General Sherman, the giant sequoia in California 1.3K t

   Earth's largest single tree by volume is still growing, adding roughly a good-sized ordinary tree's worth of wood every year.

6. The supertanker Seawise Giant, fully loaded 650K t

   The longest ship ever built could not transit the Suez or Panama canals — or even the English Channel — when fully laden.

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