LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete. An ordinary plastic LEGO brick can support the weight of 375,000 other bricks before it fails. This, theoretically, would let you build a tower nearing 3.5km in height. Scaling this up to house-size bricks, however, would cost far too much.
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The Great Wall of China was built with rice. One of the most unexpected interesting facts: For the Ming dynasty sections of the Great Wall, the bricks were held together by a mixture of sticky rice flour and slaked lime.
Lego bricks can be combined in nearly a billion ways. Six pieces of the standard eight-studded Lego bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 ways.
LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete. Before you ask why the world isn’t just made of LEGO bricks, think about how much just one set costs!
LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete.
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