★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★An octopus has nine brains.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★The moon has moonquakes.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.

★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★An octopus has nine brains.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★The moon has moonquakes.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.

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How to play Bad translator

A mangled English phrase appears on screen, the kind you get after running text through too many translation layers. Pick the original phrase from four options. Daily mode gives five rounds with a mix of translation-chain lengths. Practice mode pulls random phrases from the pool and keeps going until you miss.

Tips

Read the mangled text aloud, broken grammar often hides familiar idioms
The translation chain appears after each answer, use it to learn the pattern
Daily and practice use the same multiple-choice format
Common sayings and movie quotes show up often

About Bad translator

Bad translator celebrates the comedy of machine translation gone wrong. Phrases are pre-generated at build time so the game works offline with zero API calls. Pick the original, laugh at the mangled version, then check the language chain that caused the damage.

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