25 facts about Lego

in lego •  8 years ago 

1. Issued Lego blocks would be enough to everyone living on the planet was 64 parts.


2. Eight-two dice 24 can be combined in different ways, three dice - 1,060 ways. Of the six blocks of Lego 2? 4 mozhnor collect 915 million different combinations.


3. Children around the world spend approximately five billion hours playing with Lego cubes.


4. About 7 LEGO boxes are sold every second. Annual production of LEGO bricks reaches 20 billion bricks per year, ie, every second produces about 600 LEGO bricks


5. Of the 40 billion raised each other Lego bricks can be assembled tower that make it to the moon.


6. In the world of about 4 billion Lego figures.


7. Construction of the 545-meter LEGO railway with three locomotives entered into the Guinness Book of Records.


8. In the city of Kirk Christiansen Bellunde, Denmark, area offices and factories LEGO is 210 thousand square meters The number of LEGO staff numbers about 8,000 people in the 37-companies, half of which work in Denmark, and the rest in Switzerland, the USA, Brazil, South Korea


9. Currently available more than 600 sets of designers, containing more than 2,000 unique items. LEGO designers are sold in 130 countries around the world, and play them more than 300 million. Children.


10. You will not believe, but the Lego company was founded in 1932. True the first two years was called differently. Initially, the company made wooden toys, ironing boards, etc.


11. Lego's name comes from the phrase "leg of godt ', which translates as" an exciting game. "


12. Did you know that Lego sets 1960 easily dock with sets of Lego 2010? Although design changes - bricks already joined equally over 50 years.


13. There is a notion Lego animation. This is when using the constructor make cartoons: do the figures, and then moved.


14. Issued a huge number of games, as the computer and the desktop, where the main element of the characters of Lego blocks. So on my PSP has a great game Lego Star Wars.


15. Lego even have TV shows, as in Russia came out the same time program for children Lego th !, where children competed in various competitions with Lego.


16. Since 1932, all were produced 485 billion items LEGO.


17. This year, more than 400 million children and adults in 130 countries around the world will play LEGO dice.


18. 23 billion LEGO elements are produced every year at the factory in Billund: this is equal to 2.4 million cells per hour, and 40 thousand - in a minute. In 2010, the LEGO Group plans to increase this figure to 31 billion items (up to 60 thousand per minute and 1 thousand every second).


19. In the production of LEGO elements plastic is heated to 232 degrees Celsius, resembling the consistency of routine tests.


20. produce 300 million tires annually, LEGO Group is the largest tire manufacturer in the world for toys.


21. In all there are 3,900 LEGO elements and 58 colors.


22. There are approximately 1 billion combinations that can be composed of 6 blocks LEGO (with 8 performances). Earlier, when the technology did not allow it to calculate the exact amount, it was thought that such combinations may be about 100 million.


23. On average, one person on planet Earth for 70 LEGO bricks.


24. If you add up all the elements of the LEGO, sold during the year, one to one, then the chain 10 times will round the planet Earth


25. If you build a tower with 40 billion cubes LEGO, it will reach the Moon.

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