20 things you may not know about LEGO yet

Do you know LEGO in plural English is still LEGO.

1. "LEGO" is a short word from a Danish sentence that "leg godt " means "good play".

2. The company began to take shape when a carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen went bankrupt in his business and began making toys from the remaining pieces of excess wood.

3. With the original name of " Auto Assembling Bricks" , LEGO was famous for this product. But they were not the first to enter this market but Kiddicraft. LEGO went after them but they improved everything too well and became famous.

4. In 2002, LEGO sued a Chinese company called "Koco Bricks" for making LEGO-like toys. After that, the company had to stop production and apologize to LEGO in public.

5. The images of early LEGO people had absolutely no moving limbs, facial expressions as well as gender.

6. LEGO 560 billion pieces were produced only in 2013. If per capita, each person will have 80 LEGO pieces.

7. LEGO is the largest rubber wheel manufacturer in the world - more than real wheel manufacturers like Bridgestone.

8. The tallest Lego Tower in the world has a height of about 28 meters and uses up to 465 thousand pieces of LEGO.

9. In 2009 there was a house made of . LEGO built. This house used more than 3 million pieces of LEGO and many volunteers helped to complete this project.

10. There are more than 15 LEGO titles already on the market.

11. The manufacturing process of LEGO in the factory is so accurate that only about 18 out of 1 million pieces are not eligible to ship to the market.

12. Every 1 second there are 7 LEGO sets sold on the market. When you finished reading this sentence, there were already dozens of LEGO sets coming to the customer.

13. There are 915 million different ways to assemble 6 LEGO pieces together.

14. The largest LEGO set sold to the market is the Taj Mahal temple made from 6000 thousand pieces.

15. No one LEGO set is made with a military theme. LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen said that he did not want the war to affect children from childhood.

16. In the "LEGO Bricks in Space" program in 2011, astronauts brought 13 LEGO sets to the ISS international space station to test how LEGO will work in a zero-gravity environment.

17. When it comes to the universe, the LEGO numbers produced so far are enough to make . 10 roads from the earth to the moon.

18. There are 7 LEGO parks around the world.

19. LEGO is not only a toy but also an art. Artist Nathan Sawaya is one of the first people to show LEGO and his works are placed in many museums.

20. In 2000, the UK Association of Toy Retailers voted LEGO as a toy of the century, after overcoming two heavy competitors, Barbie dolls and Teddy bears.