no it has not been invented
No one knows exactly who invented the paintbrush but one of the earliest models is believed to have been designed by a man named Meng Tian. Some paintbrushes were made of rattan or even whale bone.
Bernard Lassimone, a French mathematician, invented the standard manual pencil sharpener in 1828. In 1847, Therry des Estwaux invented an improved mechanical sharpener.
Paintbrush can be downloaded from its SourceForge page (See links below) but is has not been updated for a while and is being evolved into iPaint.
While there have been many stories, picking an Indian Paintbrush is not illegal in the United States. Indian Paintbrush attach themselves to the roots of other plants and syphon nutrients from them, because of this they do not transplant well.
The pencil case has been around for 200 years. At first they were expensive and made of precious materials like ivory. The type of case we use today began in 1946.
Charles E Green is accredited with making the first paintbrush. His idea has since been borrowed world over by artists from various parts of the continents.
"The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus, which was a thin metal stick, often made from lead and used for scratching in papyrus, a form of early paper. They were used extensively by the ancient Egyptians and Romans. The word pencil comes from the Latin word pencillus, which means 'little tail'."wikipedia
The first Telescope is believed to have been invented by a Dutch eyeglass and the maker is called Hans Lippershey (1570-1619) in the years 1608.
Yes, a pencil can be broke by the force of Ice. This has been tested by a man leaving a pencil wrapped in tinfoil and covered in water, then left in a fridge. They waited and when they pulled it out the Pencil has been broken by the covering tightening over it and the Ice pressure, compressing it. This is how a pencil is broken by the force of Ice.
After a pencil is sharpened, the extra materials left in the sharpener are known as pencil shavings. These should be dumped regularly as old-school electric pencil sharpeners have been known to rarely catch on fire due to an overflow of pencil shavings in the machine.
I wouldn't eat a cookie that has been in the same box with a pencil.
A new pencil will have a few thousand. A pencil that had been used (written with, help, passed around, put down on a desk, been sharpened, and so on) will have a few hundred thousand bacteria on it. Most are harmless, though.