• The  words LEGO comes from the Danish words “leg godt,” which translate to “play well.”
• The LEGO brick as we know it was invented in Denmark in the 1950’s and came in five colors: blue, white, black, red, and yellow.
• They patented them on January 28, 1958, and since then, every single 2×4 LEGO brick has been produced to the exact same measurements as this patent.
• Two eight-stud LEGO bricks (2×4) can be combined in 24 different ways and three eight-stud LEGO bricks can be
  combined in 1,060 ways. Six eight-stud LEGO bricks can be combined 915,103,765 different ways.
• Children around the world spend approximately a total of 5 billion hours per year playing with LEGOs.
• LEGOs are so popular that, on average, each person on Earth owns 86 LEGO bricks.
• In 2012, 45.7 billion LEGO bricks were produced at a rate of 5.2 million per hour.
• On a roll: The LEGO Group is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers due to the fact that it creates tires for the vehicles in its sets.
• To reach the moon you would need to build a column of approximately 40 billion LEGO bricks.
• Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in 2012 would stretch around the world more than 18 times.

The Brick by Brick exhibit will be at the Museum of Science and Industry through February 2017, and it’s absolutely worth checking out.

There are models of everything from Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World to the International Space Station, all created by LEGO® Certified Professional and Chicago native Adam Reed Tucker.  It’s very interactive, with my eighth grader loved, and you can do a scavenger hunt that gets you even more involved.

This post isn’t sponsored, we just thought it was fun and think your family will enjoy it, too.

Facts courtesy of LEGO Education and Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago