Zack D. Films says the pen cap has just enough space to get lodged into someone's airflow if the cap gets stuck in the throat. Instagram You’ve probably never given the tiny hole in the cap of your ...

Twenty years after he swallowed a pen cap in primary school, a Chinese man finally had the object removed from his lung, Central European News (CEN) reported. Doctors initially thought Lei Hou, 32, ...

A viral Instagram video about pen lids is blowing some users’ minds while other smartypants say it’s recycled information. Content creator Zack D. posts “A Collection of Things That I Find Interesting ...

In today's edition of Saturday science. we bring you this: holes in pen caps help prevent choking deaths by creating a small passageway for air to slip through. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our vented caps comply with international safety standards ISO11540. These standards attempt to minimize the risk to children from ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...

We all use pens, but have you ever noticed that there is a small hole in the pen cap, whether it is the BIC's ballpoint pen or the Reynolds? Most pens have a hole in the cap. Science has progressed a ...

Doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad removed a pen cap from the lungs of a man, who had accidentally ingested it 21 years ago. The 26-year-old from Karimnagar recently approached a hospital due to ...

Zack D shared an explanation about why the detachable caps feature holes as part of a series he created called, “A collection of things that I find interesting”. The clip, shared on his Instagram and ...