Lego, the construction and building toys manufacturing company introduced its masterpiece, The Lego Bricks, in 1958. Since then, the little cubes and rectangles have been loved by the old and the young equally. The toy bricks became so popular that people started building life-size structures with the bricks.
To add to the Lego fanaticism and fascination, the folks at Movoto Novelty Blog (the ones obsessed with blocks), decided to count the number of Lego Blocks manufactured until 2013 and decided to try a globe-trotting-famous-building experiment with the bricks.
Apparently, Lego has manufactured around 474 billion bricks until 2013 and the number increases by 36 billion every year. So, if you could lay hands on all the Lego bricks ever manufactured, what famous structures of the world could one build?
With that many blocks, you could build 2972 White Houses, 588 Taj Mahals, 200 Buckingham Palaces, 74 Empire State Buildings, 66 Burj Khalifas or one huge Great Pyramid of Giza.
Apparently, the Burj Khalifa would require 7,067,231, 175 Lego bricks, the Empire State Building would comprise of 6,325,329,353 blocks, The White House would be made of 158,783,167 bricks and the Buckingham Palace would need 2,350,135,986. While the pyramid of Giza would require 444 billion bricks, each Taj Mahal would require 802,025,966 bricks!
Moreover, you could also build a city with that many blocks. One could build 46,826 median sized, 2169 square feet, two story homes using that many bricks.
Read how they arrived at the numbers, here.
But homes and buildings are not the only things built with Lego bricks. A giant T-Rex dinosaur, a Mona-Lisa painting, a car and even a replica of the Mount Rushmore could be built using these tiny little bricks.
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