♦ July 13: The
birthdate of Erno Rubik. Born in 1944, Rubik is a Hungarian mathematician and
inventor who invented the widely popular mechanical puzzle known as the Rubik’s
Cube. He wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry and
ended up creating the world’s best selling toy. The Rubik’s Cube is a 3-inch by
3-inch by 3-inch cube, consisting of 26 smaller cubes that rotate on a central
axis. In its completed form, one different color appears on each side. Before
that stage, however, a person must try to rotate any side to rearrange the
colors so that each side is composed of only one solid color.
- itwire.com
♦ One month: The
time it took Erno Rubik to solve his cube. A professor of architecture, Rubik
built his twistable box with colorful rows of labels on each side to see if it
was possible to design blocks that could move without causing the entire
structure to collapse. After he rotated a few rows and mixed up the colors, his
challenge began: realign the hues. It took him about a month to restore the
cube to its pristine condition.
- rd.com
♦ 43,252,003,274,489,856,000:
The number of possible configurations of the Rubik’s Cube. To put this number
into perspective, if a person turned the Rubik’s Cube once every second, it
would take him 1,400 trillion years to finish and go through all of the
configurations.
- omg-facts.com
♦ Cubaholics: The
name given to those obsessed with the Rubik’s Cube. Many of the real Cubaholics
are said to suffer from Rubik’s wrist and Cubist’s thumb.
- 3tend.com
♦ The Big Lebowski:
In an early draft of this movie, it was revealed that the dude’s income came
from his status as an heir to the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube. But Joel Coen
cut that detail out, deciding it was best to keep the audience guessing.
- buzzfeed.com
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