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30% wouldn't be a lot if the land were all even-sized islands, but it's all in big chunks; most of which is in a pair of unbroken masses that runs from more or less the North Pole to the Drake Passage. There aren't any straight lines from the British Isles to Hawaii or to Indonesia, or even to Australia if I'm doing the geography correctly; nor are there any straight lines from Madagascar to Greenland, or from Iceland to anywhere in the Pacific, at least by liquid water.
Add in the fact that we're not used to seeing the roundness of the Earth from any perspective other than along the equator and split on the date line, and it's really just something that puts two things into a category together that don't seem like they should be connected.
It's like the fact that Mercury is (on average) the closest planet to Venus, but also to Earth, Jupiter, even Neptune. Ok, yes, that shouldn't be a surprise, because it's the closest to the sun and the sun is always in the middle; but it's not the way we usually look at the Solar System, and also we know that Neptune is so far away from Mercury that it's mind-boggling that Mercury could ever be the closest planet to it. It's very unintuitive based on our usual perspective and existing understanding.