A team of researchers have proven that no initial Rubik’s Cube scramble needs more than 20 moves to solve. This is known as “God’s Number”. How did they solve all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions? They used about 35-years worth of CPU time donated by Google from their server’s idle time:

Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation.

They don’t mention anything about the Josh Madison method of taking the damn thing apart and putting it back together correctly (getting the last piece in is a pain-in-the-ass).

You know when you go to Google and start typing in the search field, how it attempts to autocomplete what you’re typing with popular searches other’s have done? Well, some of them are freaking hilarious, and thankfully, someone has put together a site to show off the best ones.

I gotta warn you…don’t drink anything while reading some of these. In fact, it’s probably best to vacate your bowels prior to reading them as well.