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Lego  

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  • LEGOs are small, plastic, colorful interlocking blocks manufactured as toys for children. The LEGO company began in 1932, when Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Dutch carpenter, began selling wooden toys to the children of Billund, Denmark. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; LEGOs]

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