Today is Unicorn Day—or what celebrants call "the sparkliest holiday of the year." To honor the mythical horned beast, we bring you the next best thing: a pod of narwhals brandishing their tusks in the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals develop only two teeth, but—in males especially—the left canine can grow into a 9-foot-long spiraled tusk. The tusk juts right through the narwhal"s upper lip, lending the whale the nickname "unicorn of the sea."
Hooray, hooray, it s Unicorn Day!
Today in History
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington
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National Park Service anniversary
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Celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day
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Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii
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Surströmming Day
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International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
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Mekong River Delta, Long An, Vietnam
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A walk among the giants
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Golling Waterfall, Salzburg, Austria
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The Twin Cities celebrate Pride
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Terraced fields of green
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Black History Month
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Arches National Park, Utah
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Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Birds of a feather flocking together
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
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Who s wearing such cute hats?
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Celebrating National Park Week, April 21-29
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Welcome to El Cervantino
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Superbloom in Carrizo Plain National Monument, California
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Holey moley–it’s National Doughnut Day!
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Southern right whales sail home to South Africa
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World Wildlife Day
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Trullo buildings in Alberobello, Apulia, Italy
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Flowers by the sea
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Mount Sopris, Colorado
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International Roller Coaster Day
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Splendid leaf frog
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Forward-thinking women of history
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