Facts About Pencils
More than 14 billion pencils are produced in the world every year - enough to circle the globe 62 times. One pencil will draw a line 70 miles long. Pencils don't really contain lead. That gray matter is graphite and clay. Two billion pencils are made in the United States each year. The pencil was invented more than 400 years ago, in 1565. Famous novelists Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck used pencils to write their books. Pencils didn't have erasers on them until 100 y
