Crayons

- Crayola produces 3 billion crayons every year, enough to circle the world six times.

- A Crayola factory in Euston produces 650 crayons per minute.

- For most people, the color blue is the most favorite.

- On average, a child uses 720 crayons by the time he or she is 10 years old.

- A study from Yale University found out that the smell of crayons is one of the most recognizable smells. It came in the 18th place, with coffee, peanut butter and Vicks in the first three places.

- Crayons were invented in 1880 by their manufacturers Binney and Smith. The first box of 8 colors of Crayolas were distributed in 1903.

- One may think that machines always wrapped the paper around each crayon. But this is not the case, because for the first 40 years, each crayon was wrapped individually by hand.

- In 1962, Crayola changed the skin color to peach.

- The one billionth crayon was produced in 1996. It was the ‘blue ribbon’ color.

- The biggest crayon in the world is Big Blue, weighing 680 kilograms or 1,500 lbs, 15 feet long with a diameter of 16 inches. It was made from 123,000 old blue crayons collected by American children. One can color an entire football pitch with it.