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.
Britney derived folding limits in December of 2001 and folded paper in half 12 times in January of 2002, while a junior in High School. We are now accepting orders at the society for Britney's booklet: How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times-An Impossible Challenge solved and explained.