1. Correction Fluid was
invented in the 1950s by
banking typist Bette Graham
Nesmith who saw signboards
with errors being painted over.
Her invention generated a $25
million inheritance that her
Musician son invested into the
creation of MTV!
2. Lipstick inspired the
creation of the glue stick
– while lipstick is applied to 1
surface glue sticks bond,
stick, glue and bind paper,
cardboard, photos
and fabric.
3. Blu-tack was
originally a white
conceptual product.
Though safety
standards fated a
colour change to
ensure the product
wasn’t consumed in an
era when there were no
blue sweets.
4. Superglue has been
an all-purpose life-saver
for centuries. Prior to
joining, bonding and
attaching objects and
surfaces it was used to
seal stomach wounds in
war battlefields!
5. Artline 200s pens
have a write-out span
of up to 2 kilometres
long which would take
around 30 minutes to
walk!
6. Staedtler’s Guinness World Record
‘Longest Pencil’ measures almost 460
meters long defeating the previous world
record by 136.46 meters being over
30% longer!
7. If a person is given a new pen, 95%
will write their name as the first word.
8. BIC Cristal pens have
enough ink to write 506
postcards – that’s almost
3 postcards posted from
every country in the
world!
9. Rubbers have been used
to erase pencil lines since
the 1700s, though using
stale bread was the
preferred method prior to
the rubber being invented.
Make sure you are stocked up on your favourite stationery.
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