The longest journey in a straight line
Imagine that you have gone out to sea and are sailing along a perfectly straight path, without turning anywhere or deviating even by half a degree. How long can you swim like this without bumping into land? The exact answer to that question is 32 089 km which is three quarters of the length of the equator and more than one and a half times more than the width of the Pacific Ocean at its widest point. Back in 2012, one of the Reddit users posted a map of the longest - as he claimed himself - journey that can be done by sea...