SortStack #3241 — 2035-04-24
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A common housefly 12 mg
Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.
- 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 medium pomegranate 290 g
A single pomegranate can hold over 600 juicy seeds, called arils, and the fruit stars in myths from Greece to Persia.
- A liter of water 1 kg
The kilogram was originally defined in the 1790s as the mass of exactly this much water — the tie was only fully broken in 2019.
- An adult Dalmatian 25 kg
Dalmatian puppies are born completely white; their famous spots only appear after a few weeks.
- 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.