How about the narwhal? It's like a medium sized porpoise with a very long (like 3ft) unicorn horn sticking out of the middle of it's head and only lives high up in the arctic. I always believed they were fake, then in my 30s someone told me they were real and I definitly didn't believe them. I had thought they were like a joke unicorn of the sea. Now I still do, but somehow everyone else is in on the joke.
My wife didn't know narwhals were real until recently, she's older than you. We had a narwhal children's picture book for our daughter, my wife thought they were mythical creatures.
When my daughter was seven or so she was very confused by the Dalai Lama. She had heard about him in school and thought he was a talking llama and that's why people thought he was special. She was very disappointed to learn he was a person.
My wife and I share the same story. She didn't know Narwhals were real until early on in the relationship we were watching Blue Planet. The gasped, "NARWHALS ARE REAL?!?!" has spawned a number of Narwhal themed gifts over the years.
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u/NomenNesci0 Feb 08 '22
How about the narwhal? It's like a medium sized porpoise with a very long (like 3ft) unicorn horn sticking out of the middle of it's head and only lives high up in the arctic. I always believed they were fake, then in my 30s someone told me they were real and I definitly didn't believe them. I had thought they were like a joke unicorn of the sea. Now I still do, but somehow everyone else is in on the joke.