"It was at 1:58 p.m. on January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. If stacked on top of one another, the pieces would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon."
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Did you know ???
Today’s LEGO bricks still fit bricks from 1958
There are 2,400 different LEGO brick shapes
LEGO bricks in boxes that are not sold are melted again and turned into new bricks, in accordance with waste prevention and environmental responsibility.
Check out some AMAZING Lego work by artist Nathan Sawaya
