Happy 50th birthday to Lego! The first modern lego brick was produced this day in 1958. Amazingly bricks being manufactured as you read this will still fit perfectly with those made a half century ago.

"Annual production of Lego bricks averages approximately 20 billion per year, or about 6000 pieces per second. To put this in context, if all the Lego ever produced were to be divided equally among a world population of six billion, each person would have 62 Lego bricks."