Category: Did you know?

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?

Fred Gregory set the World Record by spending four and a half days swimming non-stop.
Benoit Beconte swam across the Atlantic in 1998
Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools
In the 1984 Olympics, there were no women’s World Records set
The term swimming was named after Nelson Swimm who was the first man ever to make his way across a natural pool in South Africa
Freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke are the most common types of swimming
The highest board to be dived off is situated at the Communal Pool in Habourtown, Western Australia
A team of more than a dozen swimmers is called a “nudge”
A person wearing water winds is called a “winged swimmetty” after the man who invented water wings, Alberto Etty.
Hippopotamus’ can spend up to five minutes under the water without have to come up for air

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?

Bill Gates wrote “Pinball Construction Set”
Turbo rogue is a sequel to rogue.
The most common company name on the www is Microsoft
Apple introduced floppy disk drives in 1978
The term “personal computer” was invented by IBM in 1981
In the 1960’s the firm Honeywell developed a “kitchen computer” which functioned as a home appliance
There are 2%0 million websites
Bill Gates says “NC” stands for “No control”
IBM has been accused of playing a role in the Holocaust because it’s cataloging system helped the Nazi’s identify their Jewish victims.
Microsoft was found not guilty of anti-competitive business practices.

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?

Michael Jackson wrote the song “Teenage Wildlife”
In the 1980’s there was a popular cartoon series called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises”
A German punk band called “Atari Teenage Riot” had a hit single called “Hunting for Nazi’s”
“Sabrina the Teenage Witch” was made into a movie in 1998
47.8% of teenagers in the U.S list Sprite as their favourite drink
Teenagers can be as young as twelve.
The youngest person to have a number one single in the UK was Craig David at age 18
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe was 17 at the time of the 2000 Olympics
The United States has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the Western world.
Nancy Drew was a fictional teenage detective

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?

The yo yo was invented by Yohuvio Helmever in Yugoslavia in 1857
Marbles wer first used by the Norwegians in 20 A.D
Marbles were made of fired clay in Egyptian times
Pool balls started out as black and white in colour and other colours were added in 1918
Some horses like to play with their equivalent of footballs – they are called horseballs
The longest distance a frisbee was thrown was 24 feet 5 inches
The largest bouncy ball ever to be made measured 50 feet in diameter
Parking signs were first used by Romans
The Durian fruit can grow as big as a man’s head
The first pendulum clock was built in 1656

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?

Dracula is the most filmed story of all time
If you suffer from an intense fear of Halloween you suffer from Samhainophobia
The name Dracula means blood drinker
Halloween is always on October 30th
In Medieval times, spiders were commonly used a cure for leprosy
The name of Harry Potter’s owl is Hootie
The biggest pumpkin in the world was weighed in October 2003 at 1,385 pounds
In France over 30,000 werewolf cases were tried between 1520 and 1630
The word Witch means Evil One
A pumpkin is technically a vegetable