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August 22, 2014
How Ernö Rubik Created the Rubik's Cube
For months, he’d been working on a block made of smaller cubes that could move without causing the whole structure to fall apart. So far, each attempt had failed. The evidence was strewn all over the two-bedroom apartment he shared with his mother. One spring day, a frustrated Rubik left the apartment and wandered the streets of Budapest. He followed a gentle bend in the Danube River, a path he had walked countless times before. At one point, he stopped to listen to the water lapping ashore and looked down at the polished round pebbles that lined the riverbank. Suddenly, his heart started racing.-- Mental Floss
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So, this guy who still lived at home with his mother, he goes out on a walk (probably panhandling for food) and has these Cardiac dysrhythmias all over the place and starts looking at pebbles, likely because he fell face down in a bunch of 'em.
Being a clever Hungarian he immediately assembled twenty-seven of them into a cube, except they didn't hold together too well, being round and all.
"Eureka!" he says, in English it would be "aha!" I'll sell these to Americans.
That about right?
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at August 23, 2014 9:02 AM