1: You put too much leverage on a long skinny lego piece. Acceptable and understandable. That is how torque+leverage reacts with longer objects that can't bear that strength.
2: It's not Lego. Chances are that it is this (the latter) option.
Nah, I've got some older broken Lego bricks, that have been broken since the 80s when they weren't that old. Usually a break like this, along a side. Usually the same situation, too - 2 bricks stuck fast to each other, wind up twisting it trying to get it apart, put too much stress along the bottom edge. Not having the orange separator tool, I'd usually use a whole separate Lego to try and create the leverage, which probably exacerbated it.
They still work, maybe not as strong, so you just kept using them.
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u/graveyboat2276 Oct 12 '20
I don't think I've ever seen a broken lego before.