Amazing Chicken Facts! Chickens are way more fascinating than most people think! Here are some surprising facts: They can recognize up to 100 faces See more colors than humans 欄 Form friendships & even grieve 蓼 Taste salt but not sweet They dream while asleep Oldest chicken lived to 16 years More chickens exist than humans 練 Closest living relatives of the T-Rex Navigate by using the sun in the wild Cannot sweat Run up to 9 mph Perfect little reminders of how unique these backyard birds really are!