Brick Facts

Mailing buildings through the U.S. Postal Service was effectively banned in 1916 after a Utah businessman mailed 37.5 tons of bricks to construct the Bank of Vernal, exploiting parcel post rates that were cheaper than freight shipping.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

A man named Ryan McNaught spent 470 hours building a giant LEGO replica of the historic Roman town of Pompeii, using over 190,000 bricks.