Origami: Amazing! origami facts

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Here’s a list of things you never knew about origami – save these gems for dropping into conversation at elegant dinner parties.

The word origami has only been in use in the English language for 50 years.
You can fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.
You can solve quadratic and cubic equations by folding paper.
The oldest known origami book, Hiden Senbazuru Orikata, was written in 1797.
The largest origami crane was 65 metres by 36 metres. The smallest was folded from a 0.25 millimetre square piece of audio tape by Akira Naito.
The simplest origami model has only one fold, the most complex more than 200 folds.
There are more than 200 varieties of origami elephant.
You can make origami models from food, metal, mesh, money, and of course, paper.
Poppadom (People Out Practising Paperfolding and Dining on Masala) is a society dedicated to folding origami while eating curry.
Saburo Kase both created and taught origami, despite being blind.

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