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TIL that if you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon. It would take just 23 folds for a .1-millimeter piece of paper to be one kilometer thick, and 30 folds for it to be thick enough to reach outer space (100,000 kilometers). With 51 you will burn in the Sun.

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