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Physics

The World's Heaviest Weight

Quick fact

The world's heaviest weight ever intentionally moved is a 210-tonne anvil block created for a magnetism experiment in 2008, roughly the mass of 35 elephants.

Why this is interesting

Imagine lifting a weight so massive that it would crush an elephant—yet it's still not the heaviest thing on Earth. How do we even measure something that heavy?