How the Rubik's Cube became a design classic that baffled millions
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Created in 1974 by Erno Rubik, it took the Hungarian architecture professor more than a month to solve his own puzzle
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How the Rubik's Cube became a design classic that baffled millions
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The inventor of the Rubik's Cube took this long to first solve it
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