SortStack #3322 — 2035-07-14

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A mantis shrimp throwing its famous punch 3 ms

The strike accelerates like a bullet and creates collapsing cavitation bubbles that briefly flash with light and heat — prey gets hit twice by one punch.
The men's 100 m freestyle world record swim 46.4 sec

Pan Zhanle's 46.40 at Paris 2024 stunned the field — he won by over a second, an eternity in a sprint event decided by fingernails.
Sunlight travelling from the Sun's surface to Earth 8.3 min

If the Sun vanished right now, we'd keep seeing it — and orbiting it — for another 8 minutes and 20 seconds before noticing anything.
Mike the Headless Chicken's life after losing his head 1.5 years

The 1945 axe missed Mike's brain stem; fed by eyedropper, he toured sideshows and his Colorado hometown still throws him an annual festival.
How long the Hagia Sophia has been standing 1.5K years

Built in just five years under Justinian, it has since served as cathedral, mosque, museum, and mosque again across nearly 1,500 years.
The time humans have lived in Australia 65K years

Aboriginal Australians' roughly 65,000 years make theirs the oldest continuous culture on Earth — some oral histories describe coastlines drowned by rising seas 10,000 years ago.