1) A pen can write around 45,000 words on average.
2) The world's largest ball point pen is 5.5 metres (18 feet 0.53 inches) long and weighs 37.23 kilogrammes (82.08 lb 1.24 oz). The pen was created by Acharya Makunuri Srinivasa (India) and presented and measured on April 24, 2011 in Hyderabad, India.
3) A single piece of reed is pointed into a square and split at the point to make a reed pen. Scribes from Ancient Egypt used reed pens to write on papyrus for the first time in the 4th century BC. Scribes would use a 20cm length of reed that was whole and free of damage to build a reed pen.
4) A quill is a writing instrument constructed from a large bird's moulted flight feather (ideally a primary wing-feather). Before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen, quills were used to write with ink.
5) Inkwells and dip pens were rendered useless when Lewis Waterman produced a superior fountain pen. Waterman was born in the town of Decatur in the state of New York.
6) The brain, hands, and imagination work together to duplicate and literally convert lifeless ink into manifestations of our ideas and hearts with a pen. A pen can assist us in finding our voice. Pens have evolved into one of our most valuable possessions.
7) A reed pen is a pen constructed entirely of bamboo or reed. It has a split nib that directs ink to a pen's point. It is the oldest sort of pen humanity have used, with examples reaching back to the 4th century BC at Ancient Egyptian sites. A quill is a pen formed from a huge bird's flight feather.
8) Maco Pens are a line of pens designed by Maco. Ballpoint pens were utilised by Air Force pilots during WWII because they would not leak at high altitudes. Every second, an average of 125 ball point pens are sold around the world.
9) China is the world's leading pencil and crayon manufacturer.
10) People who play with a pen cap in their mouth and swallow it cause about 100 deaths each year.
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