May the HB with you.

I am currently using a Faber-Castell pencil, one of a pack I bought some time ago. I'd never really thought about the manufacture of pencils, nor had I considered that Faber-Castell might be a real person's name.  But there is in fact a Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell who is the boss of the pencil making company and, wanting to make a point (no pun intended), he climbed to the top of his castle (castle!!) and chucked a load of his pencils down onto the cobbles below then invited people to chose a pencil at random, which he would then slice open to reveal the lead still all in one piece.  So I shall never look at my pencil in quite the same way again.