Some matter should just be mutual knowledge by now ; little factoid that everyone contain in their brain . The Earthisn’t flatcar , but an oblate ellipsoid of revolution . Nope , your haircloth and nailsdon’t growafter you choke . The hollow at the top of Bic biro pens are there so that , if you swallow one accidentally , you’re able to still breathe and wo n’t choke to death .
It ’s debatable whether that last one there is common knowledge or not . A quick Google search of the fact , rewritten as a question , bring out articles address this gunpoint going back several years , with thelatest(re)appearing just this week over on ScienceAlert . We suppose it ’s one of those things that comes up from time to time , like what would go on if you zap Yellowstone ( not much , as it turns out ) .
If you jump over to Bic ’s website , under their FAQs , it quite clearlystates : “ The reason that some BIC ® pens have a hole in their chapiter is to prevent the cap from completely block the airway if circumstantially inhaled . This is request by the external safety standards ISO11540 , except for in event where the cap is considered too gravid to be a choking luck . ”
That ’s rather adorable of them . In appreciation of their want to not pour down off their more clumsy customers , we thought we ’d share a few more random facts about Bic that are probably going to come up up in a pothouse quiz one day .
Did you know , for example , that each Bic Biro pen can produce at least 2 klick ( 1.2 miles ) of ink before it begins to run out ? In fact , in 2015 , 7,250 km ( 4,505 miles ) of writing test on such pens were carried out on ballpoint pens , gel pens , and rollers to make certain they worked to the high standard .
That ’s equivalent to the distance from the Earth ’s open all the way down to the very heart of the planet ’s branding iron core … and 13.7 percent of the means back again . That ’s a plenty of scribbling . sound quite curative , to be honest .
At the same prison term , Bic ’s mountain range of lighter – each of which can produce 3,000 flames – do not have hand brake breathing jam in them , so we ’d strongly suggest that you do not unwittingly swallow them .
Thebest partof the Bic site , however , is this rather odd fact : “ 100 percent of penitentiary orchis are made through a highly - controlled operation . ” As opposed to a highly uncontrolled outgrowth , involve explosion and bouncy palace and utter topsy-turvydom , we guess .
Anyway : thanks Bic , for stopping fans of playpen - chewing from shamble off their mortal scroll untimely .
