10 June 18

Do you get the point? Today is Ball Point Pen Day, marking 75 years since the ball point pen was patented.
Here are some fun facts about the pen:
* An average of 100 people die each year from choking on a ballpoint pen.
* In the past, ballpoint pens were bent in order to increase the pen’s capacity of ink, but they were later produced with straight rods in order to save money.
* In almost all European languages, ballpoint pens are named using the word “ball.”
* László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen, died on October 24, 1985 (aged 86).
* 125 ballpoint pens are sold every second.
* One-third of the ballpoint pens in the United States are owned by BIC.
* Since 1983, BIC has sold more than 7,000,000,000 ballpoint pens in the United States.
* An average person in the United States uses 4.3 pens annually.
* A ballpoint pen has a lifespan of about 50,000 words.
* The most expensive ballpoint pen in the world is the Mont Blanc Ball Point which costs $730,000.