✿The pencil was invented in 1565 in England.

✿One pencil will draw a line 70 miles long.

✿The pencil was invented meer than 400 years ago, in 1565.

✿More than 14 billion pencils are produced in the world every jaar - enough to cirkel the globe 62 times.

✿Famous novelists Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck used pencils to write their books.

✿A good-size boom will make about 300,000 pencils.

✿Pencils didn't have erasers on them until 100 years geleden because teachers felt they would encourage children to make mistakes.

✿Two billion pencils are made in the United States each year.

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