Top 10 fun facts about Lego.

Hello there Gentle Reader. As you may of discovered over the last few weeks. Lena and I have adopted a little boy called Robert.
Now Robert likes playing with our cat Danny; spaghetti and Lego. So in honour of his love of those little plastic bricks, I present to you my top ten facts.

1. Lego will be 84 years old in 2016. It was founded in a carpenters workshop and the first bricks were made of wood.

2. A brick made in the 1950's will easily interlock with a brick made now.

3. The name comes from the Danish words "Leg" and "Godt" which means 'play well.'

4. There have been 4 billion mini figures made since 1978.

5. In 2009, former Top Gear presenter James May created a full size house with working plumbing out of over 3 million bricks.

6. Duplo bricks for young children can connect with normal lego bricks.

7. The tallest Lego tower in the world contains over half a million bricks.

8. The largest commercially available Lego set is a model of the Taj Mahal that contains nearly 6000 pieces.

9. The original name for Lego was Automatic Binding Bricks.

10  19 million bricks are made every year. Thats 36000 every second.

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