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If you fold a piece of paper forty-two times, it reaches the Moon.

Why it is true

The thickness of the paper doubles with each fold. Due to exponential growth, after forty-two theoretical folds, the stack of paper would be almost four hundred thousand kilometres high, surpassing the distance to the Moon.

Source: Mathematics

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