It turns out that dice, like martinis, prefer to be shaken, not stirred.

Scientists in Spain recently proved this with a cool physics experiment in which 25,000 miniature dice (measuring half a centimeter in size) were placed in a large plastic cylinder.
 After “sufficient vigorously twisting” the vessel of randomly-oriented dice, the result was a perfectly-ordered arrangement. So, how does this experiment work?
 Read here.