It's not Goodyear. Or Dunlop. Or, er....... any of those other tyre companies you might be thinking of if you know more about cars or monster trucks or Formula One than I do, which really wouldn't be very hard.
It's Lego.
They make more of them than anyone else. I learnt a load of stuff about Lego today:
The first toy every manufactured by the Lego company was a wooden duck. Before toys, the company made ironing boards.
There are 62 Lego bricks for every person in the world. If you have six standard 8-stud Lego bricks, there are 915 million ways to combine them. Apparently it took a computer to work this out; who knows how many ways there would be to combine your allocated 62 bricks.
There are more Lego people in the world than there are actual people in the world. The reason Lego people have little holes in their heads is so that, if a small child accidentally swallows one and it gets stuck in their throat, they will still be able to breathe.
In 2003, the NBA offered fans the chance to buy life-sized Lego models of their most popular players. You could also buy and build your own mini versions of some of the players; this was the first time Lego included a range of skin-colours in their sets. The first characters to have expressions other than smiles were the Lego pirates. (This makes sense. Everybody knows, you can't trust a smiling pirate.)
The biggest Lego set on sale is the Taj Mahal set (5922 bricks).
Until today I had never made a proper Lego model . But this afternoon, I broke my Lego duck. By making this:
I don't believe most of these stats!
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