One of our favorite pastimes at Geekdad is the little plastic brick, which makes today a very important day. As evidenced by the banner over at Google, today is the 50th anniversary of the Lego.
Some interesting Lego facts:
• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.
• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.
• 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year.
• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
Happy Birthday, Lego!
via Gizmodo
