Historians think that the narwhals are what the unicorn myth is based on. During the Middle Ages, unicorn horns were so coveted that royalty would pay extraordinary prices for them, often the weight of the horn in gold. Hunters travelled to Northern Europe to try and capture the narwhals and bring back their horns (which they would tell the royals were from unicorns).
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Three towns in Scotland, Australia, and the US are united by how boring they are. The towns themselves probably aren’t that boring, really, but their names sure are. Dull, Scotland; Boring, Oregon; and Bland, Australia, teamed up back in 2014 to get a much-needed tourism boost by creating the tongue-in-cheek League of Extraordinary Communities. It wasn’t long before the three towns’ union gained a new nickname – the Trinity of Tedium.
Record Number of Websites Currently in Operation. Statistics continue to be gathered by resources like Statista.com who have been monitoring the phenomenon of new websites since 1991 when Yahoo led the way for the establishment of Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. According to historians, the first website, launched on August 6, 1991, didn’t dominate the Internet for long. There were 3,000 websites operated by businesses and individuals by 1994, reflecting extraordinary growth by any measure. The fact that there are now 1.88 billion websites in existence says plenty about how crowded cyberspace is becoming.