SortStack #2946 — 2034-07-03
By size · Order from shortest to longest.
- A house dust mite 0.3 mm
Millions live in the average mattress, feasting on flakes of dead skin, yet they are too small for the naked eye to see.
- A sperm whale 16 m
Its head holds the largest brain of any animal that has ever lived, weighing about as much as a small person.
- The International Space Station 109 m
Orbiting Earth roughly every 90 minutes, its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.
- The Eiffel Tower 330 m
It grows up to 15 centimetres taller in summer because the iron expands in the heat.
- The River Danube (length) 2.9K km
It flows through more countries than any other river in the world, passing four national capitals on its way.
- The Trans-Canada Highway (length) 7.8K km
One of the world's longest national roads, it stretches across six time zones from the Atlantic to the Pacific.