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  • The eath wastes enough paper every day to cover the netherlands every 5 minutes
  • Using a normal piece of letter-sized (8.5″ x 11″, 216 mm × 279 mm) copy paper, you can fold it 8 times by folding it 4 times in one direction, then 4 times in the other as shown in mythbusters

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Comment from AnukaChander

The second fact is true. I saw it on mythbusters in one of their episodes. They took an enormous thin piece of paper the size of a football field and used a bulldozer to fold it in half.

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