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.
And, actually, you always lose more than half the length of the paper on each fold, since, as the thickness increases, the fold itself takes up more paper. Using the equation: L = pi t/6 (2^n+4)(2^n-1) you get the minimum length of paper (L) needed to fold a paper of a given thickness(t) certain number of times (n).