Desperation and Creativity in a 40ft Box When you move millions of boxes across borders, you are bound to find some strange things. Customs officials at major ports like Los Angeles, Rotterdam, and Singapore have seen it all. But among the standard contraband, there are some discoveries that are so ‘out there’ they make the […]

A Storm, a Wave, and a Billion Tiny Bricks On February 13, 1997, the container ship Tokio Express was hit by a ‘rogue wave’ off the coast of Cornwall, England. The ship tilted 60 degrees, and 62 shipping containers were tossed into the churning Atlantic. One of those containers held precisely 4,756,940 pieces of LEGO. […]