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What are facts about paper airplanes?

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Da Vinci is often cited as the inventor of paper planes, although this is debatable.
They are sometimes called "aerogami" after the Japanese craft of folding paper, origami
The earliest known date of the creation of modern paper planes was said to have been in 1909.
A basic paper airplane takes only five steps to complete.

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