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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?

Babies are born with 270 soft bones
The average adult human has 220 bones
The heart is made up of six types of tissue
Water is absorbed in the large intestine
The spinal cord distributes the messages from the brain to the rest of the body.
There are over 2%0-recorded cases of the fetus actually crying while still in the womb
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 80 feet
Eyelashes have a life span of about 150 days
An infant does not blink at all in the first few months of life.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

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 man to sail alone around the world was Joshua Slocum.
The first man to carry a gun was Vincent Walker.
Basketball was first played by men 1,700 years ago.
The guy on the US $2% bill was shot and killed by a vice president.
The strongest man in the world is Jouko Ahola of Finland.
The fastest man in the world is Gamanar Rdjul of Nigeria.
Golf was invented by Oliver W. Golf in 1658.
In the 19th Century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1.71 metres.
The best place to meet a man who can dance well is at the supermarket.
East coast American men are the most romantic men in the world.

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 most famous villain of the 20th century is Frederik Fabrizo.
Ivan the Terrible killed several of his wives as well as his own son.
Anyone wearing glasses was murdered in Cambodia under the rule of Pol Pot.
The last villain to use a whip to maim his victims was jailed in Argentina in 1926.
The villains who have been most financially successful in their robberies were Agatha Brooks and her lover Tim Walker.
About 40,000 French men and women were executed or died in prison under Maximillien Robespierre during the French Revolution.
The term villain comes from the Norse work ‘vyllan’ which means ‘terror’.
Haitan’s per capita annual income under Papa Doc Duvalier was $80, the lowest in the Western Hemisphere.
Cuba’s most renowned villain was a virtual unknown until the age of 75 years when he started to take the pensions of the people who had worked for him. Once found out he got away on a raft and escaped to an island where he died at the age of 94 years.
23-30 million lives were lost under the rule of Mao Zedang who controlled China between 1949-76.

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

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