Today Is... 📆

:wave: Good morning! :cloud_with_rain:

It’s Thursday, 28 January 2021 (W4/D28)

Today is:

:star: International Lego Day

On January 28, 1958, the original LEGO brick system patent was filed by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, a Dane whose father founded the LEGO company. The company originally manufactured wooden toys and was named after the Danish saying “leg godt” meaning “play well.”

63 years and more than 400-billion bricks later, the plastic bricks synonymous with childhood (and later childhood too!) have helped build the Lego Group into a multi-billion dollar organization with one of the strongest and most recognizable brands on the planet.

Celebrate Lego Day with a little random building spree if you have some bricks, or finish that complicated Lego Set that you’ve been putting off for so long, or spend some quality time playing with the kids and “their” Lego.

If you don’t have Lego that you can call your own, there are a number of Lego-themed movies and a large number of Lego games and franchise collaborations for you to while away this Lego Day. So yeah, no excuses.

(And for the love of all that is special about Lego, please don’t be American and refer to them as “legos”. There is no plural for Lego. You “play with my Lego” regardless of how many bricks and elements you have. You don’t “go play with my Legos” in the same way that a Kiwi doesn’t “go play with my sheeps”. )

Have a casually constructive day! :+1:

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