10 amazing LEGO facts

Celebrate 50 years of coloured bricks!

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10 amazing LEGO facts

The famous LEGO brick is now 50 years old, so we thought we'd celebrate the LEGO anniversary by sharing with you 10 cool LEGO facts and figures.

• LEGO is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well"
• During the moulding process, the plastic is heated to 232°C until its consistency is that of dough
• In 2003 LEGO  changed the minifigure's yellow facial colouring with a more authentic skin colour
• In 2006 the LEGO  website had an average of 8,137,062 individual visitors a month
• If you built a column of about 40,000,000,000 LEGO bricks, it would reach the moon
• On average there are 62 LEGO bricks for every person on earth
• The LEGO  Club has 2.4m members worldwide
• There are 915 million ways to combine six LEGO bricks
• Approx. seven LEGO sets are sold each seconds
• Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold yearly would reach more than 5 times round the world

Find more fabulous LEGO facts at the official LEGO website.