Two brothers from San Francisco say they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Earlier this month, ...

What’s the longest straight line you can drive or sail on Earth? It sounds like a weird question, and it is. But thankfully, someone has worked out the answer. Thank god! The rest of this article is ...

An argument that started on Reddit years ago has finally been settled. The argument had to do with finding the longest straight-line path that you could sail around the world without hitting land. One ...

Longest Line of Latitude: Lines of latitude are imaginary horizontal lines that circle the Earth, helping measure how far north or south a location is from the Equator. These lines play a crucial role ...

Everybody loves a shaggy dog story. A good one should be long and implausible but still on the edge of possibility. The chronicle at the heart of Eric Rutkow’s “The Longest Line on the Map” seems to ...

Paris unveiled Europe’s longest aerial cable car line, a system of 105 gondolas that is expected to carry roughly 11,000 passengers per day. “At 4.5 kilometres long, the route links Métro Line 8 in ...