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A huge length of <a href=\"\">toilet Paper<\/a> &ndash; made up of a number of industrial, 1.2 kilometer length rolls &ndash;was folded 13 times.<\/p>\n<p>The final folded result was a 1.5-metre wide, 76-centimetre high wad comprising 8192 layers of Paper.<\/p>\n<p>It had long been a part of scientific mythology that you could not fold a piece of Paper more than seven times. 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