Fun Lego Facts

The Lego Group calculated that just eight-stud bricks can be arranged in 915,103,765 different ways. If you combine the November 2010 population data of countries like the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and France, you can have one Lego arrangement per person in that combined population!

Google's co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the original Google Computer Storage using Lego bricks in 1996 as shown in the image. It's no surprise that many high-tech companies intergrates constructing something out of Lego bricks as part of their training.

The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in October 2001 that features Bible stories which are illustrated as dioramas using Lego bricks. If Judas got bricked by real bricks that we do not know.

In 2000, The British Association of Toy Retailers named the Lego brick "Toy of the Century", beating the teddy bear, Barbie and Action Man.

Did you know that a Lego brick made of the material that we know today in 1958 can interlock with any Lego brick made today?

The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System set is the best-selling Lego set ever. It has sold over 1 million sets all around the world since its inception.

An episode of The Simpsons, "Hungry, Hungry Homer" involved the Simpsons family going to Blockoland, a parody of Legoland, which is completely made of blocks. Bart buys a T-Shirt made of bricks, accidentally calling it a "Lego shirt"
before Marge corrects him.

The biggest Lego set made is the 5,922 Taj Mahal set.

According to an article in BusinessWeek in 2006, Lego could be considered the world's No. 1 tire manufacturer; the factory produces about 306 million tiny rubber tires a year.

More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949. Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth and the Moon ten times over.

Well...if you're bored and all that...take the Steve Jobs Quiz!

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