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Did you know...

4.9152
cm3 is the volume of an 8-stud LEGO brick. It measures 9.6 x 32 x 16 mm.


thousandths of a mm - that's the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories.

102,981,500
is how many different ways there are to combine six 8-stud bricks of the same colour. If you haven't that much time, you can take three
8-stud bricks - same colour - and fit them together in 1,060 ways. Two 8-stud bricks - still the same colour - can be put together in 24 ways.

170,000,000,000 (170 billion)
LEGO elements and 11 billion LEGO DUPLO bricks - or thereabouts - were moulded up to 1997.

92
per cent of all Danish households with children up to the age of 14 years own LEGO products. In Switzerland and Austria the percentage is 88, in the Netherlands 83.

200,000,000
and probably closer to 300m children and adults all over the world play or have played with LEGO bricks. A statistician has reckoned that, every year, children spend almost 5,000,000,000 hours playing with LEGO bricks.

98
per cent of total LEGO production is sold outside Denmark.

542
sets make up the 1997 international LEGO range. There are 22 LEGO PRIMO sets, 87 LEGO DUPLO sets, 10 LEGO SCALA sets, 227 LEGO SYSTEM sets, 39 LEGO TECHNIC sets and 157 LEGO DACTA sets for the preschool and school market.

1,964
is the current total of different moulded elements. There are 49 LEGO PRIMO elements, 419 LEGO DUPLO elements, 174 LEGO SCALA elements, 1001 LEGO SYSTEM elements, 197 LEGO TECHNIC elements and 124 LEGO DACTA elements - and that's not counting the many colour variations.

214,818,535
tyres of no fewer than 30 different types were produced in 1996.

50,692,960
LEGO gold coins were "minted" in 1996

2,210,000
elements were spot-checked during 1996 for moulding faults by quality inspectors in Billund.

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