Page 2 - Best of the Week

There's a town that is literally living under a rock!

The town of Setenil de las Bodegas, in Spain has about 3,000 inhabitants. Their town has the particular feature of being built under a giant rock formation. It's located just northeast of Cadiz.

The rock formation was eroded by the Trejo river, which allowed for easy construction of the houses under the walls of the gorge itself. The natural caves of Setenil are ideal for them because they don't need to build entire houses, just a façade. The rocks also keep them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Check the source for more photos!

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Pencils are yellow because the color was associated with royalty and respect in China!

When you think of a pencil in your head, you probably think of it as being yellow. That color scheme has been the case since the 1890s. But did you know why exactly that color was chosen?

During the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. American pencil makers wanted a special way to tell people that their pencils had Chinese graphite. However, the funny thing is that through the years the color yellow has now come to be seen as common.

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Bill Gates bought a Leonardo da Vinci notebook for $30m and made it available for free!

In 1994, Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester, one of the notebooks left by Leonardo da Vinci. The price? $30.8 million. Gates explained that he bought it because he has always been amazed by Leonardo and how he worked out so much science on his own and understood things that other scientists didn't at the time.

When Windows Vista was launched, the British Library launched a website that let people browse through virtual versions of two Leonardo da Vinci notebooks. One of them was the one that Gates bought.

Seems like a good use of your personal wealth to make humanity better and promote your products at the same time!

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Guinness might be the best beer for the health conscious!

If you're in the market for a full-flavored beer, but don't want a beer belly? Guinness might be your best bet. Although it's very dark colored and has a full flavor, a 12-ounce glass has, on average, 25 less calories than most full flavored beers.

Not just that, it also contains small quantities of nutrients like iron, calcium, phosphates, fiber and even some vitamins! A Wisconsin study also found that it has antioxidants and might even protect the heart.

That said, alcohol is still mostly empty calories at the end of the day. Alcohol can be a not-terrible part of your diet if you consume in moderation.

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Canada has specifically banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country!

Canada says good riddance to members of the Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kansas. The church is not associated with any of the major Baptist denominations.

In fact, they have all denounced the Westboro Baptist Church and adamantly state there is no affiliation. Canada isn’t the only country that has banned the church members from their country.

The United Kingdom has banned them entering their country, as well, on the basis of hate speech. The WBC is known for their outrageous stances and pickets. They travel all over making horrible statements about God hating…well, basically everyone who isn’t them.

They attack homosexuals, soldiers, and Jews among other groups with their pickets and protests. There doesn’t seem to be any real aim or goal for their protests, except to gain attention.

They’ve even been denounced by the KKK as being “hatemongers.” Now, that is a pretty serious statement, coming from one of the United States’ first recognized terrorist groups.

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