50th Anniversary of Lego

To mark Lego's 50th Anniversary here is my first lego...

It says this came out in 1973 but I was 2 so perhaps Legos stayed on the shelf a bit longer. I remember building this, it was fantastic. My favorite model basically because it was simplistic yet very cool. Just loved how the rubber bands were used to cushion the ride. Great set
LEGO brick curiosities

• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants.

• LEGO bricks are available in 53 different colors.

• 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year.

• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.

• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.

• Two eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color can be combined in 24 different ways.

• Three eight-stud bricks can be combined in 1,060 ways.

• There are more than 915 million combinations possible for six 2 x 4 LEGO bricks of the same color.

• The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.

• 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.

• World-renowned author Douglas Coupland believes the LEGO brick represents a "language in itself."