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- The founder of LEGO’s was a man named Ole Kirk Christiansen.
- As of 2021, the company is 89 years old!
- Top 4 LEGO Sets We Like!
- The LEGO bricks made back in the fifties will still be a perfect fit with the LEGOs we play with today!
- The LEGO molds used in production are highly accurate (within to few-thousandth of a millimeter of each other!)
- The name, LEGO, comes from the Danish words Leg Godt, which translates to “play well”.
- The LEGO bricks we know and love today were patented by Ole Kirk Christiansen’s son in 1958.
- The Guiness world record for the tallest LEGO tower is 114 ft 11 in (35.05 m) high.
- The first LEGOLAND opened up in the year 1968.
- There are approximately 915,103,765 different ways you can combine six out of the eight LEGO bricks.
- One man actually used LEGOs to build a real home.
- One amazing kid used his LEGOs to create a Braille printer.
- LEGOs have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
- Nathan Sawaya was the first to use LEGOs in his art.
- There are professional LEGO builders.