✿The pencil was invented in 1565 in England.
✿One pencil will draw a line 70 miles long.
✿The pencil was invented more than 400 years ago, in 1565.
✿More than 14 billion pencils are produced in the world every year - enough to circle the globe 62 times.
✿Famous novelists Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck used pencils to write their books.
✿A good-size tree will make about 300,000 pencils.
✿Pencils didn't have erasers on them until 100 years ago 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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