Did you know this about LEGO?

Lego is a huge company that has been one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world for years. But do you know everything about this giant?

We have looked up all the fun facts for you and summarized them in this article.

Why is there a hole in a Lego man's head?

Safety is extremely important at LEGO. To
prevent children from choking they have in the little heads of it
doll makes a hole through which the child can continue to breathe.

Lots of possibilities...

LEGO looks simple, but you can go in any direction with it. If you six
If you take LEGO blocks (4 by 2 dots), you can make more than 915 million
make different combinations.

Not so original after all?

And yet LEGO did not come up with the bricks themselves. The original idea
was called Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick. Then the inventor of this
committed suicide, LEGO bought all rights to the Kiddicraft block and
called it LEGO.

Countless possibilities

The LEGO factory in Denmark produces more than 20 billion blocks per year
year and 7 LEGO products are sold every second. In this
period this is even 28 per second. Very popular!

The treasury

This vault contains all produced LEGO sets, making it a true museum.
They call this the Memory Lane and it contains more than 4800 products (!).
And yes, if you visit the historic LEGO museum
you can look into it yourself.

Figure necklace

In 2014, there were a total of 550 million mini figures and mini dolls
produced. If you put these next to each other you have a line of 14,000 KM
long.

Do you meet the average?

On average, every person on earth has 102 LEGO bricks.

Can you still reach it?

The tallest LEGO tower in the world contains 450,000 blocks

This is how you solve a murder case.

In the American state of Utah, a murder case has been solved after 23 years after investigators managed to remove the fingerprints from a LEGO block.

A LEGO movie really has to be from LEGO

The LEGO MOVIE was a huge project. Not only the figures are made in the LEGO factory, the whole thing
landscape is built with LEGO pieces. Even special effects, like
water, laser beams, explosions, ice and smoke are possible with LEGO blocks
established.