Splenic-flexure syndrome is a chronic disorder that may be caused by gas trapped at bends (flexures) in the colon. Crohn's disease, colon cancer, or any disease that causes intestinal obstruction, may also cause abdominal bloating. Internal hernias or adhesions (scar tissue) from surgery may cause bloating or pain.
For many years it was thought that the maximum number of folds that could be achieved was just seven! This was the case until when in 2002 American teenager Britney Gallivan demonstrated that a sheet of paper can be folded 12 times, provided that it is long enough and thin enough.
It was impossible to fold a piece of letter-sized (8.5 Ã 11, 216 mm Ã 279 m â¦ m) 20 lb (75 g/mÂ²) copy paper with perpendicular folds more than seven times.es the moon is 238,857 miles away whereas a piece of paper folded 50 times reaches over 200,000,000 miles so it would reach the moon (and then some) Edit: A piece of paper (â¦ lets use metric for this) is approx 0.1mm thick.