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Rubik's Cube - IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING
1980's
This was the decade when the world said good-bye to John Lennon and hello to the Rubik's Cube.
Every invention has an official birth date. For the Cube this date is 1974 when the first working prototype came into being and a patent application was drafted. The place was Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The inventor's name is now a household word. At the time, Erno Rubik was a lecturer in the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest.
The World RUBIK Cube championship
was held in Budapest
on June 5, 1982. Nineteen National Champions took part. Minh Thai, the
US Champion, won by solving the Cube in of 22.95 seconds. The world
record, in competitive conditions, grew progressively lower and now
stands at 16.5 seconds.
Unbelievable!!!!
Number of possible color COMBINATIONS
The
Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible configurations.
One, and only one, of these possibilities presents the 'solved' Cube,
having a single color on each of its 6 sides. If you allow one second
for each turn, it would take you 1400 million million years to go
through ALL the possible configurations. In comparison, the whole
universe is only 14 thousand million years old.
DID YOU KNOW? GREAT CUBE FACTS!
1. In 1980, Ideal Toys considered renaming the Magic Cube 'The Gordian Knot'! Then somebody suggested 'Rubik's Cube' - and the rest is history!
2.
Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was chosen to host the Rubik's Cube's
launch in America, beginning with a Hollywood party on 5th of May 1980.
3. Over 100 million Rubik's Cubes were sold in the period 1980-1982.
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