Unicorns are REAL and We Always Knew It

​Hi, just FYI: unicorns are real. So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, post-bank-holiday blues. We're feeling ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

Although if we're being ​technical ​about this, no magical flying animal with a horn sticking out its head currently exists in the world. But anyone who wants to piss on our parade and point that one out is just being facetious.

The point is, unicorns may actually have existed once. Ie, they're not based on a throne of fabricated lies but on a glorious pillow of truth. Truth and happiness.

And according to scientists, they're descendants of a type of rhino. A Siberian rhino, to be specific. How exotic. The Elasmotherium sibiricum, as it's not-very-snappily named, reportedly used to strut around south western Siberia sprinkling its glitter as it went (okay that last bit was a lie, but give us SOMETHING) about 26,000 years ago.

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Which basically isn't that long at all, when you consider that it's 12 years since ​Mean Girls ​was released and that feels like it's flown by.

Given the time estimation of their existence is roughly 26,000 years ago, this would also suggest that unicorns came into ACTUAL CONTACT with humans, hence its existence in myth and folklore ever since.

But the way we're going to look at it, if unicorns once existed, then surely they (or some kind of amalgamation of them) could theoretically exist again. And that's all we need to get us through this dreary Tuesday.

GO FORTH AND BE UNICORNS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.

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