You can’t fold a piece of A4 paper more than eight times. As the number of layers doubles each time, the paper rapidly gets too thick and too small to fold. The current world paper-folding record belongs to California high school student Britney Gallivan, who in 2002 managed to fold a 1.2km-long piece of tissue paper 12 times.
100 Mind-Blowing Fold Facts
You can fold a piece of paper more than 7 times. Legend has it that with each fold on the paper you make, the thicker the sheet becomes. Eventually, it will become impossible to fold or it will require impossible amounts of energy to complete the crease. But that’s not true at all! This “impossible feat” is achieved by many all over the world. Don’t believe it? Try it yourself now!
The 7-fold paper is a myth. Maybe with a small piece of square paper, it would be hard to make more than 7 folds. However, the myth that a piece of paper can’t be folded over 7 times has been disproved many times.
It is impossible to fold a piece of A-4 paper more than eight times.
Scientists believe that early human ancestors used to have three eyelids. One of the eyelids eventually became the small fold in the corner of human eyes today.
You can’t fold a piece of A4 paper more than eight times.
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