Welcome. to the Weird But True podcast. We are back from our break with all new episodes. We know it's been forever since we got an episode out, but we heard and recorded one so you guys know that we didn't quit. Also, this episode was inspired by a fun fact that Henry and Oscar, who we mentioned in the last episode, gave us. What's the fact, Matilda? You'll find out. What are we going to be talking about today, Irma?
This topic is toys. Let's play around with some facts about toys. I own a billion Legos, so, so, so many. I doubt you own a billion Legos. Oh hey Matilda, I was just joking around that I have a ton of Legos. I know, but what you- didn't know is that if you actually did have a billion Legos you would own about a four hundredth of the Legos in the world. Four hundredth hmm that would be let's see here yeah I'm clueless
It means that there are about 400 billion Legos in the world. I think I did the math right. Wait, seriously? Yep, enough for every person in the world. to get about 62 bricks. Well I know I have more than 62. And what's even more crazy is that 1,300 bricks are made per second. Numbers just keep getting more crazy. Here's some other fun facts about Legos.
The first Lego bricks were made from wood. A single Lego brick can support 375,000 other bricks before giving out. And the amount of Lego bricks sold in just one year could wrap around the earth Think we should try to wrap Legos around the world five times? No way. No thanks. But thanks to Henry and Oscar for this fact. about the Legos without you. Oh, I just learned some other random Lego facts. Lego bricks haven't changed over the years.
A Lego brick from 1956 fits on a Lego brick made today. Here's two more. There are over 400 billion Lego bricks in the world. Stacked together, they are too many. 3,386,065 miles tall which is ten times higher than the moon and globally children spend five billion hours playing a year playing with Lego even trying to listen to me uh well no then what are you doing i'm trying to break the record of the highest stack of legos oh uh how high did you get
Fifteen. Irma, you do realize that the highest Lego tower has more than 500,000 Legos? I guess I just did. Ugh, count up the score. I got a Yahtzee. All the numbers on the dice are the same. You're about to bust some facts. Irma, please just let me tell you one fact about dice. Fine. All opposite sides of a dice add up to seven. But...
are made so that opposite sides make maximum plus one. A 20-sided dice, opposite sides add up to 21. In a six-sided dice, opposite add up to form seven each of those values being equally likely to come against the fact that the faces of the dice cause a small difference due to dots uh what did you say how to explain it so if anyone wants to learn more about that maybe they should look some of it up although dice aren't terribly interesting good point
Second facts our friends Henry and Oscar have given this name to us Wait, hold up. They did more for us Yep, we have to give them a special special. Thank you Thank you! Our new name is Fast Vax. Well then, let's get to play. earthquake and chilly shorten the length of a day on Earth by 1.26 microseconds. There is no time at the center of a black hole. The length of your foot is about equal to the distance from your elbow to your wrist.
To your rest. You can compete in underwater mountain bike race in Walls United Kingdom. A sailfish can leap through the air at 68 miles an hour. That's about the speed a car drives on the highway. There are about 70 lakes hidden under the Antarctic... Guys, leeches can live in your nose. This was another episode of the Weird But True podcast. Keep a lookout for future episodes. Irma out.