SortStack #3577 — 2036-03-25

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A common housefly 12 mg

   Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.

2. An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg

   Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.

3. 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.

4. An adult male sperm whale 45 t

   Its clicks reach about 230 decibels — the loudest animal sound on Earth — and a third of its body is one giant sonar-focusing nose.

5. The RMS Titanic 52K t

   Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.

6. The supertanker Seawise Giant, fully loaded 650K t

   The longest ship ever built could not transit the Suez or Panama canals — or even the English Channel — when fully laden.

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