Legos are the coolest toys around. Everyone knows Lego – the toy of the century, twice! This is an interesting article about the Danish company (didn’t know they were Danish, did you?) that produces 15 billion individual pieces a year.
The LEGO Group’s story begins in 1932, when Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys for children. However, the LEGO brick?as we know it today?wasn’t launched until 1958.
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The bricks produced today can interlock with those produced back in 1958.
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LEGO Group is producing 15 billion components a year?that’s 1.7 million items an hour, or 28,500 a minute. Tire production accounts for some of that number; the factory also produces 306 million tiny rubber tires a year. In fact, going by that number, LEGO is the world’s No. 1 tire manufacturer.
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The bricks are so versatile that the LEGO Group has calculated that just six eight-stud bricks can be arranged in 915,103,765 different ways.