20 Interesting Lego Facts Of All Time

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20 Interesting Lego Facts Of All Time

Legos are building toys that almost everyone knows for their variety. From games to movies, Legos have been everywhere. Here are some facts about...

By Toonacious

Published 3 years ago

Legos are building toys that almost everyone knows for their variety. From games to movies, Legos have been everywhere. Here are some facts about them.

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"in 2013 a former Silicon Valley executive was sentenced to one month in jail for a barcode swapping scheme to steal Lego sets." - u/AudibleNod

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"Eight-year-old Gabi Mann of Seattle, Washington receives gifts from crows in her garden. She feeds the crows regularly and little "treasures" are given in return including a miniature silver ball, a black button, a blue paper clip, a yellow bead, a blue Lego piece, and a pearl colored heart." - u/freddyjohnson

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"a 2x2 brick of Legos can withstand an excess of 950 pounds." - u/stevenlele13

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"Lego is starting to use recycled materials to build their pieces." - u/tidblgr10

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"in January 2014, seven-year-old Charlotte Benjamin sent a handwritten letter to Lego complaining there were "more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls". In June 2014, Lego announced a new "Research Institute" collection featuring female scientists which sold out within a week." - u/MadeleineDean

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"Colorado researchers have 3D printed miniature Lego-style bone bricks that can heal broken bones. The blocks, which are the size of a flea, help regrowth and can be interlocked like toy bricks. They hope to scale the technology and use it to supply laboratory-made organs for human transplant." - u/SingLikeTinaTurner

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"LEGO is already pluralized and pronouncing “LEGOs” is incorrect." - u/_LifeWontWait86_

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"the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter right now is carrying three LEGO minifigures made out of aluminum. The first is Galileo Galilea, who first studied Jupiter. The Second is the Roman god Jupiter. The third is the Roman goddess Juno." - u/MidlandsRepublic2048

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"That there was a Lego MMO that was cancelled because inappropriate players kept creating penis' and despite the team's best efforts, their software was unable to keep up with the detection of them." - u/bhaggith

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"a 13 yo built a braille printer out of Lego & brought down the cost from over $2000 to $500 & gave the software aware free" - u/Jumpie

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"In July ‘20, ten days before it’s release, LEGO cancelled their upcoming officially licensed Lego Technic V-22 Boeing Osprey model aircraft due to the their long-standing policy not to feature real military vehicles" - u/xtralongleave

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"NASA and the LEGO have a long history of collaboration, for example in 2010 LEGO released NASA-inspired products, together with NASA, developed innovative educational STEM-related activities and products. Several of the educational LEGO sets flew on board the International Space Station (ISS)." - u/purpleowlie

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"Angus MacLane, the director of the upcoming Pixar movie "Lightyear" designed the official Wall-E Lego set that came out in 2015" - u/rippy123

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"It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. The tower would be nearly 12,000 feet tall." - u/sniperwolf21

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"Lego mini-figure heads were redesigned to have a hole in them. From Lego: "We added this hole on the top of the head just in case any kids got one of the heads stuck on their throat. That way they would be able to keep breathing." - u/grandlewis

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"end credits for The LEGO Movie were made in real stop-motion style, and those 3 minutes of content took 3 full time animators two months to create." - u/thepartyscene

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"the LEGO company, ever since its creation in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, has been a family business. Its current owner is the creator's grandson, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen." - u/elephant-rose

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"the world record distance for walking barefoot over Lego is 8.9km, held by Sonny Molina" - u/pufballcat

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"A bonsaï tree is not a species of tree. It's just a regular tree. Bonsai is a method of growing trees which aims to create an image of a large mature tree but in miniature" - u/Matelot_Pierrot

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"in 1969 Jeff Wayne wrote a jingle for a Lego radio commercial. Years later he added lyrics to it and used it in his famous 'War of the Worlds' musical." - u/Rosinho77