'Pokémon Go' players have walked around the earth more than 200,000 times

In the six months since the Pokémon Go mobile game dropped, players have been putting in some serious effort. 

Everyone seemed to drop everything when the game was released in July and all that searching for Pokémon has paid off — users have collectively walked 8.7 billion kilometers, or 5.4 billion miles, according to Niantic Labs (the company behind the game) in a blog post Tuesday.

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The gaming company made a video to show how far we've gone to catch the digital creatures. We've walked past Uranus, Neptune and even the dwarf planet Pluto. In terrestrial terms, that's more than 200,000 trips around the Earth. Read more...

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