May 21st, 2009

  • Worldwide, seven boxes of Lego are sold every second.
  • Heo Young-Ho of South Korea left Lego on the top of Mount Everest in 1987.
  • According to Lego, even just two bricks give 24 different combinations.
  • All Legos are made equal. Every brick is compatible from the first brick made in 1958 (the year before the Guggenheim was completed and Wright died) to those made today.
  • The Lego minifig was born in 1974, and it took another 30 years for them to get proper, skin-colored faces when licensed figures dropped yellow for flesh-tone.
  • Kids waste around 5 billion hours a year playing with Lego.