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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Today is National Geographic Day. However, I want to talk about tomorrow, which is National Lego Day. So how about we put the two together?
Let's get started. So yes, today is National Geographic Day. However, I don't want to talk about that, not necessarily, but I will kind of sort of. Tomorrow is National Lego Day.
That is what I really want to talk about. Now, to be honest, I didn't grow up with Legos. I never got a Lego set. The closest thing I had to Legos were Weebles, and they are not Legos.
Just, yeah, they're not. But at no point did my parents buy me a Lego set, nor family members or anything. I would get gifts out the wazoo, but I never got a Lego set. So let's fast forward to today.
I have a daughter. She absolutely loves Legos. I don't even remember how she got introduced to Legos. I know she had a friend, Radon, whose dad got him, I'll put that in here, quotes, got him a Lego set.
It was a Star Wars Lego set, but he was not allowed to touch it. And I remember us going over to their house and Radon showed us the Lego kit that was already put together, that his dad put together, and he couldn't touch it. And he was showing it off to my daughter, and he's messing with it, and his mother is like, hey, watch it, leave it alone. Your dad will be so upset if you mess that up.
And so I'm kind of like, well, then it's not a toy for the kid. But I think Legos bring out the kid and everyone, because I know I enjoy playing with them. And I think back and I was like, gosh, it would have been so cool if I had some of these back in the day. I didn't, but I get to enjoy it now with my daughter.
Okay, so let's go ahead and do this mashup between National Geographic and Legos. So I found an article in National Geographic, Kids About Legos. They gave you 10 fun facts about Legos, and I'm not gonna go through all 10 of them, but just the ones that I found the most interesting. The first one, the founder of Legos, is Las Amos Christensen.
He came up with a name for Legos by taking the first two letters of the Danish words, leg and goat. Now, lego means play well. Well, it should mean works well, because that name works for Legos. There's some products out there, that if they had a better name, then the product would be better received.
And although I don't think many people that play with Legos speak Danish, or even know the background in the name of it, but it just works, it works well. Now, another fun fact is that the bricks received their patent back in 1958. But here's the amazing part about it. The molds used to create Lego bricks are accurate to 2,000th of a millimeter.
And because of that high degree of accuracy, there's only around maybe 18 bricks in every million bricks produced that failed to meet the company's high quality standard. How crazy is that? So you know what that means? That means that the bricks from back in the day can be used with the bricks of today.
And there's no problem. They're gonna go together perfectly. That right there is awesome. Now, let's see.
They talk about some of the places, the attractions. And I wonder how many of you guys have been there. We haven't. And it wasn't until today that I realized exactly how many of them are out there.
But I'll get to that in the next segment. The other little piece of information I wanted to give you is that on average, there are 80 Lego bricks for every person on earth. And I know that number has to go up each year because simply Legos are constantly being created. I know my daughter got, I think, three sets at Christmas time.
So come on, they're still making them. So why not go out and get your 80 bricks? Or get your 80 plus bricks real quick and enjoy building some stuff with Legos. Before I go any further, don't confuse National Lego Day with Lego Build Day.
Lego Build Day is at the end of December. And it only makes sense because for Christmas, a lot of people get Lego kits. You get a Lego kit? Why not a couple days after that?
Break it out, go ahead and build it. If you didn't go ahead and build it on Christmas Day, right? So once again, two completely different days. This day we are celebrating the creator of Legos and how much fun they are and how cool they are and awesome and all that good stuff.
Now, another thing that we want to focus on is Lego attractions. Now, just focus in here on the United States. There's way more Lego attractions than what I thought were out there. I don't know what I was thinking.
I could only think of Lego Land Florida Resort. I had no idea that there's a resort in New York. There are all of these Discovery Centers in Philadelphia, New Jersey, another part of New York, West Chester, Michigan. There's even a water park.
Where have I been? Did you guys know about this and how come you didn't tell me? So just the other day was National Plan for Holiday Day or not Holiday Plan for a vacation day. So I'm thinking that this might be one of those cool vacations to plan because I know my daughter will have a great time but I also know my husband and I'll have a great time too.
So I wanted to put that out there for you guys. Just look up Lego Land and you are gonna find so many things. And if you're on the East Coast, you're in luck because there's pretty much something close to everyone. There's something in Atlanta.
You've got Florida, you've got the New York area, Philadelphia, what's this other one? I guess another one in New York. You can go a little bit further West and you've got Chicago, we've got stuff in Texas. Just check it out.
Look it up, Lego Land, you can't miss. After listening to that last segment, it almost sounds like I work for Lego, but I don't. They don't pay me. I don't have any affiliate agreements with them.
I just really like the Legos. I like Legos, they're cool. So with that, I got a little quick story to tell you. The other day my daughter was playing with her Legos and she's like, hey, Mom look what I made.
And I'm looking at it and I'm like, I can't figure out what that is. Hey, what is it baby? She said it's bread. Oh.
And in that moment I realized, you know what? Stop being adult all the time. Stop being an adult all the time. Step into kid mode.
And when I did that, I could see all sorts of things that it could be and I saw the bread too. It made sense. And I think that's one of the things I love so much about Legos is that they help you to use your imagination. And I think that's just a really great thing.
So before we get out of here, let me send you to Twitter. I want you to look up Lego group, Lego ideas, Lego education, the Lego movie, Lego master's box, the Lego foundation, and first Lego League. And while you're doing all of that, go ahead and check me out too at HEVET. That's at H-E-V-E-T-T-E, or just look for the hashtag tweet trends.
Have a awesome Friday Lego day. Post some pictures. I would love to see what you make. And I'll see you next week.