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Did you know? Many believe the colorful 'Lego' bricks have always been plastic, but the company actually began as a small woodworking shop in 1932! Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen originally crafted wooden toys, and they only started producing plastic bricks nearly 20 years later.

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5 facts about LEGO

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    LEGO bricks are made from a high-quality plastic called ABS, which is melted at 450 degrees Fahrenheit and then injected into molds with immense pressure.
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    If you built a tower of LEGO bricks high enough to reach the moon, you would need over 40 billion of them to complete the structure.
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    There are enough LEGO bricks in the world that if you divided them equally among every person on Earth, each person would have about 80 pieces.
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    The LEGO Group's name is a combination of two Danish words: "leg" (play) and "godt" (good).
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