According to the Bic website, the reason for the hole in the top of biro pen lids is to allow the passage of air if someone accidentally swallows the cap and it becomes trapped in their windpipe.

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There are few things more bizarre in modern financial services than printing a form, signing it with a pen, scanning it back ... proving their identity with a biro and a scanner.

He said: "'I was writing her eulogy and my pen ran out. And I reached up ... caught under my fingernails as I was reaching for the biro. He continued: "And I pulled it up, and it was a card ...