SortStack #3185 — 2035-02-27

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An Etruscan shrew, the world's smallest mammal by mass 1.8 g

   Its heart beats up to 1,500 times a minute, and it must eat about twice its body weight in insects every single day.

2. A one-euro coin 7.5 g

   Its two-metal design is not just style — the distinct layers give vending machines an electromagnetic signature to verify.

3. 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.

4. An adult male African lion 190 kg

   A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.

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 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.

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