Oddly Mesmerizing Video of the Day: How Crayons Are Made

Susana Polo

Published: Dec 6, 2010 05:52 pm

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According to science, the smell of Crayola crayons is the 18th most recognizable smell to adults, more familiar than cheese and bleach.

Help us answer the most vital crayon question after the jump.

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.