420 Ninety nine percent of the data we use travel under the oceans where there are now over 420 submarine cables in service, stretching over 700,000 miles or 1.1 million km around the world. And the first transcontinental cable was laid in would you believe, 1858 and ran from Ireland to Newfoundland
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