It took Rubik a month to solve his cube. With 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations, who could blame him? Aside from the irony, what puts this in funny facts is how the current record-holder for the fastest time to solve a Rubik’s cube finished it in 4.22 seconds.
100 Mind-Blowing Cube Facts
The Rubik’s cube is the best-selling toy of all time. Since it was introduced in 1980, over 350 million Rubik’s cubes have been sold.
It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube one month to solve the cube after he created it.
1 tsp of neutron star weighs the same as the human population. A neutron star’s density is mind-boggling. These stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons packed together in a tiny radius. Just a teaspoonful of this material would weigh over a trillion kilograms — more than the weight of the entire human population (which reaches a few hundred billion kilograms). To make something as dense as a neutron star, the whole of humanity would need to be crammed into a space the size of a sugar cube.
Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines form the faeces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory.
It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after creating it; as of June 2018, the world record is 4.22 seconds.