6. Pencils with built-in erasers on the tops are a largely American phenomenon. Most pencils sold in Europe are eraser-less.Read into that cultural difference what you will.

Say goodbye to cast iron rust. Shoppers say this Lodge rust eraser restores cast iron cookware to ‘like new’ condition, and it’s $10 on Amazon.

This makes them best for erasing graphite from pencil marks without destroying standard-weight paper, but also means they’re not particularly effective for other markings or thinner paper—if ...

Happy 158th birthday to the pencil with attached eraser! It was on March 30, 1858, that Hymen L. Lipman received a patent for his remarkable invention — a tube of wood with graphite at one end ...

Graphite pencils had been around since the 1500s, writes David Green for Haaretz. But until the 1770s, the preferred tool used to erase pencil marks was balled-up bread.