MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – SPAIN

How much do you know?  Mr Dorsey, the best teacher in this universe, challenges you – what do you know?  Mr Dorsey has taught the lesson below and claims everything is true – but we believe only 50% of Mr Dorsey’s ‘facts’ are actually truths and the other 50% is false.  Can you spot what is true and what is false?  Can Mr Dorsey be trusted?  Is 100% of what he teaches correct?  Maybe not in this universe – is he instead really out of this world?

There are about 40 million people in Spain
Spain was occupied by North-African Muslims for more than 700 years.
Spain, under the rule of Franco, experienced the first Fascist dictatorship in the world.
Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with over 330 million people speaking it.
Spanish is one of the two official languages spoken in the United States.
Spanish is spoken in 20 countries.
Technically, Spain is not part of Europe—the Iberian Peninsula is on a different tectonic plate, and should be classified as a large island.
In Spain, Spanish is spoken with a lisp out of respect for a former Spanish king who had a lisp.
Pablo Picasso never married
During the late 1930s, a number of bored British and American men (including Ernest Hemingway) showed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War.