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A violent thug stabbed a biro pen into a hospital patient's neck before stamping on his head in a vicious attack at a mental health unit. Michael Jennings branded his victim a 'little bald b*****d ...

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.

PRINCESS Margaret “didn’t have much of an opinion” of Prince Harry and once gave him a biro pen for Christmas, he claims. He said the late Queen’s younger sister — who died in 2002 aged ...

László Bíró was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen and so he invented the ballpoint pen in 1938. Show more In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint ...