Totally useless facts ...

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that since 1949 the Danish company that makes *LEGO* has produced over 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the *LEGO* system.

 

[sunwaiter]

wow i can't count the figures, i get dizzy when there's more than three of them! i was a big lego activist as a child!!!

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha sunwaiter,

It is quite mind-boggling for me too - I always had a blast with LEGO.

Cheerio,

CD

 

[sunwaiter]

i think i can bear my own pretention of saying lego is the most creative toy ever... created, and that children addicted to lego are on the right way!

one day i wanted to build a tower, you know, the tower that never ends. but i couldn't even reach the ceiling.

 

[Corno Dolce]

sunwaiter,

I too built that *Building* and it went to the ceiling. I put together various towers of differing heights right next to the main tower to buttress it.

Cheerio,

CD

 

[methodistgirl]

The company Lego also makes knitting machines. I watched it on you
tube one day.
judy tooley

 

[marval]

Hi Judy

I didn't know that.


New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.

 

[methodistgirl]

That goes to show that you can never have too many spoons.
judy tooley

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that van Gogh had only sold one painting throughout his life.

 

[marval]

Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that the earliest written legal text was composed by Ur Nammu in 2100 B.C.

 

[marval]

Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year.
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[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that a queen bee can lay upto 1500 eggs a day.

 

[marval]

During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that more than half of all cat owners admit to confiding important matters to their cat.

 

[marval]

The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that Winston Churchill at one time could lay upto 90 bricks an hour - a feat which earned him an honorary union card from the mason's union.

 

[marval]

To make an espresso 42 coffee beans are needed.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that a woman in Florida, in 1977, drank so much water that she died of water intoxication.

 

[Contratrombone64]

The company Lego also makes knitting machines. I watched it on you
tube one day.
judy tooley

LOL @ Judy - now there's a certainty "I saw it on You tube" therefore it's a fact ... I really need to become a believer!