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How heavy is 4.96 pounds?

It's about 40,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Salt
The weight of a Grain of Salt is about 0.0000001290 pounds.
The mass of a grain of salt is approximately 0.0000001290 pounds. Salt consumption varies widely by country; the people of the United States consume a combined total of about 126,000,000 pounds of salt each year.
It's about 0.00000002 times as heavy as The CN Tower
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The weight of The CN Tower is about 259,950,000 pounds.
(a.k.a. La Tour CN, a.k.a. Canadian National Tower, a.k.a. Canada's National Tower) (Toronto, Canada)
The CN Tower weighs approximately 259,950,000 pounds. The Tower is home to the world's highest glass floor — a viewing area that allows visitors to look straight down 342 m (1,120 ft) to the ground below.
It's about 0.00000001 times as heavy as The Sears Tower
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The weight of The Sears Tower is about 444,900,000 pounds.
(officially "Willis Tower" as of 2009) (Chicago, Illinois)
The Willis Tower weighs approximately 444,900,000 pounds. The outer wall surface of the Tower is covered with black anodized aluminum panels which would total 110,000 sq. m (28 acres) if laid out together.
It's about 0.000000007 times as heavy as The Empire State Building
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The weight of The Empire State Building is about 730,000,000 pounds.
(New York City, New York)
The Empire State Building weighs approximately 730,000,000 pounds. About 4% of the building's weight is its 6,000 cu. m (200,000 cu. ft) of limestone façade.
It's about 0.000000003 times as heavy as The Golden Gate Bridge
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The weight of The Golden Gate Bridge is about 1,770,000,000 pounds.
(San Francisco, California and Marin County, California) (Post 1986 weight reduction; total weight of bridge, anchorage, and approaches)
Following the completion of the 1986 project to eliminate excess material, the total weight of the Golden Gate Bridge — including its anchorages and approaches — is 1,770,000,000 pounds. The two main cables in the spanning the bridge are spun out of a total of 129,000 km (80,200 mi) of wire.
It's about 0.0000000004 times as heavy as The Great Pyramid of Giza
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The weight of The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 13,000,000,000 pounds.
(a.k.a. Pyramid of Khufu, a.k.a. Pyramid of Cheops) (Cairo, Egypt)
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an estimated mass of 13,000,000,000 pounds. The 2,300,000 stones used in the construction of the pyramid weighed an average 5,000 pounds and were quarried from distances of up to 805 km (500 mi) away.
It's about 0.000000000000000000000000000001 times as heavy as The Sun
The weight of The Sun is about 4,399,999,999,999,999,411,952,405,184,512.000000000000000000000000000000000 pounds.
The sun has a mass of 4,400,000,000,000,000,452,283,919,107,096,576.000000000000000000000000000000000000 pounds which represents 99.9% of the solar system's total mass. 98.7% of the sun's mass consists of hydrogen and helium — respectively the lightest and second-lightest elements in the universe.
It's about 0.0000000000000000000000004 times as heavy as The Earth
The weight of The Earth is about 13,169,999,999,999,999,945,474,048.000000000000000000000000000000 pounds.
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