These Common Household Objects Will Be Obsolete In a Few Short Years

Newspapers

Just like printed books, you can read whole newspapers online now. If you have subscriptions to publications like The New York Times, you can get full issues on your phone or tablet in seconds. Though nobody wants to see the papers go out of business, it's likely they'll move to online-content only.

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The More You Know

  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
  • A man sued Pepsi claiming he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
  • All the Professors in Pokemon have been named after trees.
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