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The Lego group gathered in a carpentry workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen. He started to make wooden toys.
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He started calling it "Lego". Based on the Danish phrase "Leg Godt" which means "play well" he got the name.
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The Lego group started to make its great blocks using plastic.
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After 5 years, they found a perfect material for it- ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) polymer. It's sort of like plastic.
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Its brick design was then patented.
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Lego sold its first box to the US in 1962.
