Well, it looks like my seven-year-old daughter was right after all. Unicorns do indeed exist.

This cute little fella is a one-year-old Roe deer living in the Centre of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy (near Florence). The director if the centre, Gilberto Tozzi, is clearly a man with a sense of humour. “This is fantasy becoming reality,” said Tozzi recently. “The unicorn has always been a mythological animal.”

Even though this is the first documented case of deer with a centrally positioned single horn (off-centre positioning is not unheard of), Tozzi believes that if it can happen now, it may also have happened in the past, and this creature may actually be very similar the original inspiration for the unicorn myth.

This particular deer, lovingly dubbed “Unicorn” by his keepers, is a genetic anomaly; his twin with a simply average pair of horns (no photo ops for you!).

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn
Photo: AP Photo

When Fredric J. Baur passed away at the age of 89 on May 4th, his family found themselves in a slightly awkward position; Baur, inventor of the famous cylindrical Pringles can, had left instructions that his cremated remains should be interred in his creation.

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In Utrecht, Netherlands, a young man got way more than he bargained for when he pressed his naked buttocks against a restaurant window: the glass broke, and his butt got cut.

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In a move that left me stunned, a high-ranking Vatican official recently announced that it’s okay to believe in little green men.

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According to a recent Reuters report, police in the Congo have taken action to protect local “sorcerers” from being lynch over allegations that they are using black magic to steal or drastically reduce the size of men’s penises.

13 suspected sorcerers and 14 purported victims were temporarily rounded up by the authorities in an effort to put an end to this silliness. Rumors circulating around the capital city of Kinsasha say that a sorcerer can make a man’s member shrivel up and/or disappear completely simply by touching him.

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Faithful blogTO readers will remember this video we posted back in December of the Shared Propulsion Car being pulled over by Metro’s finest back on October 25, 2007 alleging the driver, Dean Baldwin, was operating an unsafe vehicle.

Brainchild of Montreal artist Michel de Broin, the 1986 Buick Regal had been stripped of its engine, suspension and transmission so that occupants could propel the car using pedals. Think of it as a hard shelled luxury cycle built for four. As an added touch, de Broin had replaced the car’s headlights with votive candles (no word on whether or not they were scented, but they did stay lit for the entire trip).

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