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MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – EASTER

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – EASTER

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 first Easter egg to be made ever was given by Emmet Garner

The biggest chocolate egg ever made took 5 months and 678 children to eat it

The Easter Bunny’s visit started out as a German legend

Early Christians used red to colour their eggs

A boiled egg can last for a week in the refrigerator

A female rabbit is called a doe

You should always wash your Easter Eggs before you eat them

The Celtic name for hot cross buns is haewt craegre bannocks

If you don’t wear a piece of new clothing on Easter Sunday it is considered to be bad luck

The Welsh were the first people to make Easter Sunday a national holiday

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – SWIMMING

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – SWIMMING


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

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – COMPUTERS

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – COMPUTERS


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.

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – Teenagers

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – Teenagers


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

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – ROUND THINGS

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – ROUND THINGS


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