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Some pencil's are filled with lead, but rarely any nowadays. Pencils use to be filled with lead, but now pencils are typically filled with graphite as lead is poisonous to humans.

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No, pencils are not filled with lead. They are filled with a mixture of graphite and clay. The "lead" in pencil terminology refers to the graphite core inside the pencil.

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