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

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

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How to play Explain it badly

Every round shows a terrible description of a completely normal thing. "Angry water dog with too many teeth" is a shark. "Bread jail that occasionally launches the prisoner in celebration" is a toaster. Pick the right answer out of four options, tap or press 1 to 4 on desktop. Ten rounds per run, and consecutive correct answers build a streak. After each answer you get a short bonus fact that makes the bad description even funnier. Best score is saved, rematches are instant.

Tips

Take the description completely literally first, then squint
The wrong options are chosen to be close, one detail usually decides
Think about what makes the thing unique, not what it looks like
Streaks reward consistency, slow down when you are on one

About Explain it badly

Describing things badly on purpose is one of the internet's oldest party tricks, and for good reason: a shark really is an angry water dog, once you see it you cannot unsee it. Explain it badly turns the trick into a quiz. Each description is technically accurate and spiritually unhinged, and the four answer options are close enough that you have to actually think. It works great on the couch, better out loud with someone guessing next to you, and the after-answer facts (sharks are older than trees, glitter never leaves) give you material for your next conversation. Ten rounds, a streak counter and a best score to defend.

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