The next time you go camping, consider throwing a pencil sharpener in your pack. Sure, you can shave wood down for using as tinder with a good knife, but it’s still hard to get those shavings as ...

The most common type of institutional sharpener, the hand-cranked type you can still see mounted to a wall or the teacher's table in classrooms all over the world, was introduced in 1904.

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This story was published April 8, 2016. We forgot to pencil it down in our calendars, so National Pencil Day came and went on March 30 without much fanfare. But David Rees probably celebrated it.

“I’ve always loved the iconic No. 2 pencil,” he explained. “When I was working for the 2010 census, we were each issued No. 2 pencils and a manual sharpener.