by It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about my favourite toy, LEGO, so I thought I’d correct that with a crazy LEGO fact that stuck in my mind this weekend while watching National Geographic’s special MegaFactories: LEGO. So here it is:
The number of unique ways you can combine 6 classic (2×4 stud) LEGO bricks of the same colour is an incredible 915,103,765
That’s over 915 million different ways! So, if like me, you had to find out how they came up with this number, there’s a great story behind it here, along with some great numbers regarding combining of larger numbers of bricks.
Other great facts from this same programme were:
- Over 50% of LEGO’s entire annual sales take place in the 2 months before Christmas each year
- The LEGO factory in Billund, Denmark is technically the largest manufacturer of tyres in the world (great table quiz question!)
- Worldwide, 7 LEGO products are sold every second
