SortStack #3409 — 2035-10-09
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g
Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.
- A round loaf of sourdough bread 800 g
Some sourdough starters are family heirlooms over 150 years old, kept alive by daily feedings of flour and water.
- An adult male western lowland gorilla 160 kg
Silverbacks are several times stronger than a fit human, yet they eat almost nothing but plants and the occasional termite.
- A Thoroughbred racehorse 570 kg
At full gallop a racehorse's heart pumps roughly 240 liters of blood per minute — ten times its resting rate.
- The Liberty Bell 943 kg
Its famous crack was widened on purpose — an 1846 repair meant to stop the fracture instead ruined the bell's tone for good.
- 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.