https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr 10 most interesting facts about unicorns. en-us 2017-12-16 13:19:02 UTC 2025-10-31 04:50:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Prizecup.png bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216681253 Unicorns are used as a metaphor, along with FSM , to show the fallacy of believing in gods, as there is as little evidence for any of them. Some people probably do believe , as some believe in the yeti and Bigfoot.  There's  one big difference in the belief in gods or unicorns. you can have power and make money with gods. That's why the god virus is inoculate into our children's brains, then it's hard to get it out.

There's a  Humorous advert for a pay channel in France that explains why there are no unicorns. the ark is just about ready to sail and Noah sees that the unicorns are not there. One of his sons dashes off to find two, and gets back with them just in time. The ark sets sail, then they realize the two unicorns have the same appendages between their legs.

]]> 2017-12-16 13:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216681253 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216681772 The unicorn is a legendary animal that looks like a horse or a goat with a single horn on its forehead. Unicorns are thought to be good and pure creatures with magical powers. They are strong, often white in color, and difficult to catch.

The unicorn appears in the art of ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient Indian and Chinese myths also told of unicorns. Chinese myth claims that seeing a unicorn is a good omen. Stories and…

]]> 2017-12-16 13:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216681772 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216682045 The Unicorn. The Unicorn is a mythical horse-like beast, with a horn attached on its forehead. Unicorns can live to be hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years old if left untouched by evil hands. There is little genuine fact known about the animal, due to it being mainly a creature of myth and legend.

]]> 2017-12-16 13:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216682045 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216702730 The first known depiction of a unicorn—found in the Lascaux Caves of modern-day France—dates to around 15,000 BCE! Or so people thought, until they realized that the so-called Lascaux unicorn had two horns, drawn confusingly close together.]]> 2017-12-16 18:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216702730 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216703883  The earliest record of unicorns in Western literature belongs to Greek historian Cartesian. In the 5th century BCE, he wrote that the beast had a white body, purple head, blue eyes, and a multicolored horn—red at the tip, black in the middle, and white at the base.

]]> 2017-12-16 18:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216703883 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216703969 In his travels, Marco Polo believed he stumbled across unicorns. He wrote, “They are very ugly brutes to look at. They are not at all such as we describe unicorns.” That’s because they were actually rhinoceroses.]]> 2017-12-16 18:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216703969 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708638 Genghis Khan reportedly decided not to conquer India after meeting a unicorn, which bowed down to him; he viewed it as a sign from his dead father and turned his army back.]]> 2017-12-16 19:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708638 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708695 During the Dark Ages, when science famously took a back seat to illogical hunches, collections known as bestiaries listed the biological properties and medicinal use of known animals, which at the time included unicorns. It’s in these collections that virgins were first described as having great power over the creatures.]]> 2017-12-16 19:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708695 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708951 The King James version of the Old Testament contains nine references to unicorns, thanks to a mistranslation of the Hebrew word re’em. The original word was likely the Assyrian rimu (auroch), an extinct species of wild ox.]]> 2017-12-16 19:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216708951 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216709004 The legend that unicorn horns could counteract poison and purify water was bad news for narwhal populations, as the single tooth protruding from the front of the whale’s head made for a popular counterfeit. The Danes even had a throne made of narwhal horns.]]> 2017-12-16 19:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216709004 bombardcol07 https://padlet.com/bombardcol07/emdf147ji4jr/wish/216709191 To MF/Mental Floss
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