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MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BREAD

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BREAD

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?


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

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – CLEANING

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – CLEANING


The first recorded actual cleaning profession was Vincent Vagolies in Rome, 1657

45% of cleaners are men

The single blade window cleaning squeegee was invented in 1936 by Ettore Sceccone

Salt is often used in manufacture to thicken neutral detergent (washing up liquid)

The biggest house to be cleaned by a sole cleaner is Dartmoor Estate

Taiwanese toilet attendants actually live with their families in some facilities

Most cleaning products are made by the same company, Driscol

Queen Elizabeth II prefers to clean her own bathroom

Experts recommend using vodka as a cleaning solution for diamond jewellery

The highest price paid for a vacuum cleaner was at an auction in Spain where the bidder paid ten million dollars for an antique Russian machine once owned by the household of Czar Nicolas II

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BEEDLEY BOPPERS

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BEEDLEY BOPPERS


Breast Cancer Awareness in the UK sells bright pink Beedley Boppers to help raise funds and awareness

Beanie calls Beedley boppers beedly boppers

Beedley boppers are plastic headbands with glittery objects attached to them by springs

Margaret Thatcher wore a pair of Beedley boppers to a school fete in Essex in 1982

Modern day Beedley boppers were invented by the Rev.Tim Beedley of Bloomsbury, UK

Jet wore a pair of Beedley boppers to Octavia’s party

The first Beedley boppers to be worn were in India in the 16th century by medicine men who claimed they were the spirits of the bugs

Beedley boppers with glittery British flags were worn at the end of the Gulf War by women waiting for their husbands to return

Beedley boppers were given to all school age children to wear for the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer

Beedley Boppers were all the rage in the 1980’s