today is LEGO's 50th anniversary! if you look on google's homepage, you'll see that its logo is made up of LEGO bricks.

here are some facts pulled from wired.com:
• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants.
• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.
• 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year.
• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.


images: top (gizmodo.com), bottom (google.ca)