Lego has got to be one of the most well known brands in the toy market in the world.
Here are some interesting Lego stats:
- On average every person on the planet owns 52 Lego bricks
- There are 915,103,765 ways of combining six eight-stud bricks of the same colour
- Lego’s factory in Billund makes 2.2m Lego pieces every hour
- Each year the company produces 306m tyres which, Lego maintains, makes it the world’s largest tyre manufacturer
- Larry Page, one of the Google founders, created an inkjet printer made from Lego bricks while at the University of Michigan

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