Popular among artists for obvious reasons, this northern Italian island gets its multicolored streets thanks to a system stemming from the golden age of the area’s development. In other words, if you want to paint your home here, you must send a request to the government who will respond by making notice of the permitted colors on that specific lot.

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With hundreds of diets claiming to be the holy grail of weight loss, it’s hard to distinguish the legitimate schemes from the frauds. Dieting itself has been around for most of human history, though fad dieting grew increasingly popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Yet for every successful diet plan, there are twice as many that have been disproven or retracted. Here’s a list of some of the most peculiar diets from the past few centuries.

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The Graham Diet grew popular around the 1830’s, when Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham claimed that it could cure both obesity and squelch the desire to masturbate. Meats and alcohol were on the ban list as, according to Graham, they made humans both impulsive and lustful.

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Taken on the cusp of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, violence seeped into nearly every facet of Spanish life–even into the minds of children. Featured above, several children in Barcelona don’t spend their free time making daisy chains or playing hide and go seek; rather, they imitate firing squads.