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Hungary’s Most Famous Toy Inventor

2010-10-19 by Phil Butler

Inventor of the Rubik's Cube

Have you ever wondered where the Rubik’s cube was invented? If you thought Mattel created it in America, you were wrong. A Hungarian inventor and professor named Ernő Rubik has thus far been responsible for puzzling over 350 million kids, and their fiends too.

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