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Ole Kirk Christiansen founded the Lego company in 1932 in Billund, Denmark. He began crafting wooden toys in a small workshop driven by a philosophy that play was essential for a child's development.
The patent for the modern Lego brick was filed in Denmark on the 28th of January 1958. The bricks are made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS, which offers superior durability and precision.
The company produces approximately 36 billion bricks annually, which averages to about 1140 elements per second. It operates manufacturing plants in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico, and China, with additional facilities in the Czech Republic for decorations and packaging.
The first official Lego film, Bionicle: Mask of Light, was released in 2003. The Lego Movie, released in 2014, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Lego bricks are manufactured to a tolerance as small as 10 micrometres to ensure they fit together firmly yet can be easily disassembled. About 18 bricks out of every million fail to meet the standard required, and human inspectors check the output to eliminate significant variations.