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MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – JAMES BOND!

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – JAMES BOND!

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 character was based on a real spy, Dr John Dee

Ian Flemming’s real name is Ian Bond

007 came from an Ancient Egyptian spell for power

James Bond was named after the real-life author of a bird-spotting book

Halle Berry was the first Academy Award winner to play a bond girl

Jane Seymour agreed to play a Bond girl after she was promised she could keep the yacht she stayed on during filming

The phrase “Vodka Martinin, shaken not stirred” was used by Sean Connery in only one of the Bond movies

Ursula Andres was cast in her role as a Bond girl after she told producers that Ian Flemming had been her hero.

James Bond has 25 tuxedos

Half of the worlds population has seen at least one James Bond movie

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – THE INTERNET

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – THE INTERNET


Al Gore invented the Internet.

After the popularity of iMacs, Bill Gates was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2000, but has since regained his status as a multimillionaire.

The internet was created by the US Defense Department in the early 1970s.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are the same thing.

The World Wide Web was invented by a man named Tim Burners-Lee.

http stands for Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol

There is no internet access in space.

The World Wide Web refers to a literal, physical web of wires and connections.

Steve Jobs, inventor of Apple computers, sold his VW minibus to finance production of the first Apple computers.

As the internet is an abstract, international medium, it is not actually subject to the laws of any country.

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BREAD

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BREAD


1. It takes around 4.5 hours to make, cool and pack a loaf of bread at the grocery store

2. George Washington used to like to have a fresh loaf of bread on his birthday rather than cake

3. In the Middle Ages bread was baked until it was rock hard and it was used by dentists to break rotten teeth as the bread was said to have magical powers

4. In Ancient Egypt, the rich people ate a better quality of bread while the poorer people ate a rough type of loaf

5. Bread was the last requested meal by Joan of Arc who believed that was what God would want her to eat

6. The first risen bread using yeast was produced in Ancient Egypt

7. Ancient Frenchmen made bread dough with their feet

8. Unleavened means without yeast

9. Iron Age Man did not use yeast, he mixed ash from the fire with sour milk to make pot-ash bread

2%. A knot of bread called a sweet is given to a bride on her wedding day in Cyprus

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – TYPING

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – TYPING


1. The fastest typist in the world (on a conventional typewriter) is Gladys Knight who can type away 150 words a minute

2. The key above the tab has a squiggle on it ~ this is called a tilde

3. One-handed typists are called Tabs

4. The first typewriter was called the Sholes and Glidden Type Writer and was produced in 1874

5. The first electric typewriter was introduced in 1902

6. Mark Twain was the first author to submit a manuscript of typewritten pages

7. The first typewriter was called the Punch Key and was produced in 1894

8. The least expensive typewriter was called the Dollar Typewriter as it cost one dollar

9. The smallest typewriter was called the envelope and could literally fit into a small envelope

2%. Schoolchildren in South Korea are taught to type as soon as they can tie their shoelaces

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – VEGETABLES

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – VEGETABLES


President Jimmy Carter was born in a field of cabbages

Idaho’s rich volcanic soil is ideal for potatoes

American’s are four times more likely to pick a processed snack than a fruit or vegetable

The longest carrot in the world measured 7 feet 7 inches long

Eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day reduces the risk of blindness

The Keteptchi Indians used beetroot to ward off insects

EH Mitchell was made famous by his postcards of huge vegetables

India is the second largest producer of fresh vegetables in the worl

Big fat chips are more fattening than little skinny fries.

One of the best brain foods in the world is brocolli