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* The Invisible Pink Unicorn is the goddess of a parody religion, the parody being that it is impossible to disprove her as she is invisible, and that her followers have faith that she exists and is pink. She's a parody of all religious beliefs that can't be tested, and also a parody of deities with contradictory traits (such as simultaneous invisibility and pinkness.)
* [[Horny Vikings|Viking]] [[Intrepid Merchant|traders]] used to sell Narwhal tusks and call them unicorn-horns. As Narwhals could easily be presented as magic beasts themselves, one wonders why they bothered with calling them unicorns.
* Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus raised a stir in the 1980s by displaying "unicorns" in its shows ... in reality, white angora goats whose horn buds had been surgically repositioned in infancy. The animals' creator, a scholar and artist deeply involved in paganism and mythology, actually holds a patent on the procedure. She's also the co-founder of the real-life Church of All Worlds, a neopagan group that uses some of the concepts introduced in Robert Heinlein's ''[[Stranger in
* Ameristar casino advertisement: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5nzqkzvJY "Is that a unicorn?"] [[Up to Eleven|"No, it's a quadricorn!"]]
* The Unicorn is the Heraldic symbol of Scotland -- which is odd, as purity is not the sort of thing one would associate with a nation so [[Violent Glaswegian|famously violent]]. On the other hand, unicorns have to [[Fridge Brilliance|use their horns for something]]. According to Wikipedia, however, the unicorn is the mortal enemy of the lion -- which England takes as its symbol... and Scotland was once the mortal enemy of England.
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