SortStack #3101 — 2034-12-05

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The International Space Station 420 t

   Assembled over 42 flights, it circles Earth 16 times a day at 28,000 km/h, so its crew sees 16 sunrises daily.

4. The Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane at maximum takeoff weight 640 t

   The heaviest aircraft ever built was destroyed in Ukraine in 2022; 'Mriya' means 'dream' in Ukrainian.

5. A Saturn V rocket, fully fueled for a Moon launch 3K t

   Apollo crews rode atop a small warship's worth of kerosene, hydrogen, and oxygen — most of it burned within minutes.

6. The CN Tower in Toronto 117.9K t

   It held the title of world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years, and its glass floor was the world's first.

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