Lego Bricks(Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.)

LEGO blocks -- the colorful, easy-to-choke-on Scandinavian building bricks -- celebrated their 50th birthday on Monday.

The brick design was patented a half-century ago by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, and the blocks began their glorious journey into every child's toy box and/or esophagus.


But did you know that LEGO has sold about 400,000,000,000 pieces -- or 62 bricks for every person on Earth?

That's enough blocks to build a LEGO tower to the moon. So, there's no excuse not to finish that pirate ship.

Want to see the weirdest LEGO models Ayslum could get our hands on?
Top 10 Weirdest LEGO Models