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b"Over 100 million Rubik\\u2019s Cubes were sold in just a few short years at the onset of the 1980s - a phenomenon kickstarted on 19th May, 1974, when Hungarian Professor of Architecture Ern\\u0151 Rubik supposedly created the prototype for his \\u2018Magic Cube\\u2019.\\nIt took him a month to solve himself - a feat which seems unimpressive in a world where the current record stands at under six seconds.\\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Ideal Toys saw the unlikely potential in the unprecedented \\u2018spacial logic toy\\u2019 Rubik had created; reveal just how many knockoffs and spinoffs were generated by its incredible success; and explain why there are 519 quintillion reasons to be sceptical about this being a truly significant date in Rubik\\u2019s history\\u2026\\xa0\\nFurther Reading:\\n\\u2022 \\u2018Rubik's Cube - A History of the 1980s Puzzle\\u2019 (ThoughtCo, 2019): https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-rubiks-cube-1779400\\n\\u2022 \\u2018On this Day, in 1974: the \\u201cMagic Cube\\u201d was invented by Ern\\u0151 Rubik\\u2019 (Kafkadesk, 2021): https://kafkadesk.org/2021/05/19/on-this-day-in-1974-the-magic-cube-was-invented-by-erno-rubik/\\n\\u2022 \\u2018Rubik's Cube Commercials through the years!\\u2019 (Rubik\\u2019s, 2021):\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNGg8FdLxsA\\nWant more? There\\u2019s OVER FIVE MINUTES of Rubik\\u2019s fun, cut for time from today\\u2019s episode, exclusively available to our podcast\\u2019s supporters. For this, and bonus content each and every week, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or sign up to our top two tiers on Patreon:\\nhttps://patreon.com/Retrospectors. Thanks!\\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King.\\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022.\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"