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If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its' thickness will be 3/4th the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

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Explanation

The answer is true because each time we fold a piece of paper in half, its thickness doubles. If we fold it 50 times continuously, the thickness of the paper will have doubled 50 times. This exponential growth results in a thickness that is 2^50 times greater than the original thickness of the paper. Since 2^34 is approximately equal to 17.18 billion, which is significantly larger than the average distance from the Earth to the Sun (about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers), it is clear that the folded paper's thickness will indeed be around 34 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.