5 Things To Do with Newspapers

The newspaper industry is dying, so put newsprint to use while it's still around! Use those old broadsheets to dry wet shoes, remove oven residue, and more.

From Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things, Reader’s Digest Australia

Did You Know?

What we call newsprint—the type of paper used by newspapers around the world—was invented around 1838 by a Nova Scotia teenager, Charles Fenerty.

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