Why are pencils shaped like hexagons, and how did they get their iconic yellow color? Pencil shop owner Caroline Weaver takes us inside the fascinating history of the pencil.
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WAIT WHY IS THERE 3 VIDEOS AT ONCE WHAT
They need to ralk about the left handed pencil about 99 percent of all pencils are right handed.
Christmas came early
aaron Salentine excuse me
I clicked so fast it was private lol
Ted bro you’re high
Lol
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The pencil’s tip breaks easily and can be hard to sharpen. Mechanical pencils are better, but taking notes with the pen from the samsung galaxy tab s4 is the best!
There not perfect. I need a left hand pencil there expensive and hard to find.
Not to mention that pencils can get old, and the wood degrades and make it a terrible experience to write with.
Omg I just commented the same! Thank you
Well we can add a cap on top like pen so that the sharp head of the pencil won’t break when it stays in our bag…….
Wow, hundreds years of invention, and all american O_o
2 min of “research” tells me the pencil was invented and inproved in Italy France Germany Britain and Sweden. It took the amaricans 200 years after invention to start putting the lead in wood. The numbering System has a too small range. That video looks nice but is full of lies.
She said Americans were the first to mechanize the process.
YOU’RE full of lies
+Nathan Spain Uhm… ever heard the name Faber-Castell?
No, USA, USA, USA shouting will not make the pencil an american invention…
I like stationary so this really appealed to me.
The most foolish part of this video is the idea that it’s perfect. We should always be striving for improvement.
+Mark Lawyer Figure that out and you’ll find yourself quite a bit richer.
A mechanical pencil, there’s an example how it can be improved. There are more yet-to-be-discovered improvements.
I doubt she meant it literally and absolutely.
Point breaks easily and quickly becomes dull, makes a mess when sharpening which you can only do with a separate tool, is usually thrown away with more than half left because it becomes too awkward to use. Yer, apart from that, perfect!
John Doe hehehehe you funny guy.
Yeah, mechanical pencils are superior by far.
I love pencils. The kids and grandkids in my family always are excited knowing that they will be getting fun and unique pencils from me. I enjoy shopping and coming across new pencils. Never been a fan of mechanical pencils though. A few fun ones were made of recycled blue jeans, the long flex/ bendy ones that you can twist and tie, scented, scenes, ergonomic, monogrammed, the classic 12-18″ tall x 1-2″ wide jumbo pencil, so many great fun ones.
This was awesome to read. You seem like a wonderful and quirky person 🙂
Why cheese is perfect
Love these short and informative videos! Good job TED
*thanks to the sharpener.*
Damn well now we know what gets her jimmies going. When dating this girl, flowers are not a right choice. A bouquet of pencils would be much better.
Clicked so fast to being one of the first peoples watching this, realised youtube send me the notification a couple hours late…
There should be more videos about this errors(I call them errors) in youtube;
why does this happen ?
Why recommandation system is bad ?
Why algorithms does this ?
If someone that has power of giving video(research) ideas to Ted, please, give this to them 🙂
Also great video, now I will feel much different at school when I use my pencils.
Edit1: grammar.
Do you think she pleasures herself with pencils