The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured in the U.S. annually. If these were laid end to end, they would circle the earth nine times.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:25 am
That sentence is badly structured. I wanted to know immediately if the pencils or the lines that they could draw were laid end to end if that is how many times they would circle the earth.