[4] Sharpie markers are manufactured in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, and Maryville, Tennessee, and with numerous off-shore partners globally.

[2] For the 2010 season, Newell Rubbermaid switched the sponsorship for this race to its Irwin Tools brand.

These advertisements depict people using Sharpies in bad situations, such as using the marker to touch up a car and a college woman highlighting words in a book to notify a male student that his fly was open.

[8] Sharpies are the writing utensil of choice for astronauts aboard the International Space Station because of their usability in zero-gravity.

According to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who commanded the International Space Station in 2012–2013, "you can hold it any which way and it still works".

[9] US president Donald Trump has a well-known preference for using Sharpies to sign official government documents, as he did when he gave autographs.