I’ve got a pop quiz for you today: how many steps does it take to walk around the world? Since we aren’t Jesus and can’t walk on water, we are excluding oceans and major bodies of water. Well, there is a website that measures such achievements as walking around the world. According to their calculation, it takes the average person around 20 million steps to make that walk. Can your Fitbit register 20 million steps? Or would it melt down after about 10 million?
Among the handful of people who have proof that they have completed this walk is Steven Newman, the first person known to walk solo around the world. It took him four years.
The first woman was named Rosie Swale-Pope, who at age 57 jogged around the world to raise money for various charities. She wore out 50 pairs of running shoes …