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Jun 27, 2008 8:07pm

Lego in numbers

1.5 - The speed of lego brick transporting robots in the old warehouses.

2.5 - The speed of lego brick transporting robots in the new warehouses.

2.5 - The average storage time for lego bricks (in months).

4 - The number of warehouses.

4 - The number of robots per warehouse (old or new).

4 - The number of aisles per warehouse (old or new).

7 - The number of lego sets sold around the world per second.

13 - The height of the old warehouses (in metres).

20 - The height of the new warehouses (in metres).

62 - The number of Lego bricks per person of the Earth’s population.

65.6 - The shelving area of all four warehouses (in square miles).

65.6 - The height of the warehouses (in feet).

130 - The number of new Lego sets launched annually in the U.S.

170 - The shelving area of all four warehouses (in kilometres squared).

4, 720 - The number of Lego sets produced to date.

36, 000 - The number of lego bricks produced per second.

162, 240 - The number of storage boxes per old warehouse.

262, 240 - The number of storage boxes per new warehouse.

424, 000 - The number of boxes in storage in all the warehouses (at 80% capacity).

2, 160, 000 - The number of lego bricks produced every hour.

900, 000, 000 - The number of lego bricks collectively stored in all four warehouses at any given time.

19, 000, 000, 000 - The number of lego bricks produced and moved per year.

400, 000, 000, 000 - The approximate number of lego bricks ever produced.

Thanks to Gizmodo and their wonderful enthusiasm for Lego.

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