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Truncated icosahedron

12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons: the shape of a soccer ball. These are a few of its many nets.

How to make it

Cut off the 12 corners of an icosahedron at a third of each edge. The triangles become regular hexagons and the cuts are pentagons.

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solid = cut, dashed = fold
Nets6 of many