Did you know…

• There are more minifigs in the world than humans
• The LEGO® Group is the world’s largest tire manufacturer
• There have been 400,000,000 LEGO elements made in the 50 years of the brick
• LEGO pirate minifigs were the first with heads that had features other than the classic smiley curved mouth and two eyes
• Six eight-stud LEGO bricks can be put together in 915,103,765 ways
• The word LEGO came from the Danish words leg-godt, meaning Play Well.
• There are enough LEGO bricks in the world for each human to own 62.
• 7 LEGO sets sell somewhere in the world every second.
• Children all over the world spend about 5 billion hours annually playing with LEGO bricks.
• It takes about 7 seconds in the mould for a LEGO element to cool from 232 degrees celcius.
• The world’s largest LEGO castle used 400,000 bricks.
• End to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would go around the word 5 times
• If you multiply that by the 50 years of the LEGO brick, you could circle the earth 250 times
• If you built a tower of 40,000,000,000 LEGO bricks, you could reach the moon