DID YOU KNOW?

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

I was reading today that no one person on the planet has all the knowledge or skills necessary to make one pencil. It takes multiple millions of people contributing their specialized skills just to make one, from cutting trees, mining graphite or running a factory. Check out this interesting information about the simple yellow stick. 

The typical new pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.

Before the invention of erasers, writers and artists used bread crumbs to erase mistakes. 

Pencils can write in zero gravity, and were used on space missions by American and Russian astronauts. 

Pencils can also write under water!

More than 14 billion pencils are produced in the world every year - enough to circle the globe 62 times.

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

One million pencils are used annually on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The average pencil can be sharpened 17 times and write 45,000 words. 

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!