Approximately ten Lego pieces are sold for every person on earth each year mdash more than seventy-five billion of the little plastic bricks But if it wasn rsquo t for the perseverance of Danish toymaker Ole Kirk Christiansen there wouldn't be any Legos to snap together Christiansen toiled away in Billund Denmark for decades before creating leg godt which means ldquo play well rdquo His workshop was destroyed by fire twice He endured bankruptcy and a world war that caused a shortage of materials Finally in the late s he landed on the idea for self-locking plastic bricks By the
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