Did you ever know a person who was left-handed? It seems as if they have the hardest time finding products to use, because we live in a world that is geared toward right handed people. Sometimes, they struggle with even simple tasks for that very reason.
What might surprise you is that lefties tend to be more independent because they spent the majority of their lives adapting. There are also many fascinating factions about lefties that you probably never knew before. Here are 23 of them.
1. Up to 10% of the population are left handed
2. Lefties are 3 times more likely to be an alcoholic
3. They mostly use the right side of the brain
4. They are late bloomers – reaching puberty 4-5 months later than others
5. They are good at certain sports, such as tennis, baseball, boxing and swimming
6. 4 out of 7 recent presidents were lefties
7. Lefties who graduate college tend to become 26% richer than right handed people
8. Back in the day, if you were left-handed you might have been accused of having a nasty habit, the mark of the devil, a sign of neurosis, being rebellious and capable of criminality and/or being homosexual. Sometimes, however, it indicated creativity and musical abilities.
9. The word left came from an old anglo-saxon word (lyft). It means weak or broken
10. Women over 40 who give birth are 128% more likely to give birth to a south paw than a woman in her 20s
11. Rats, mice and cats have equal number of left handed and right handed
12. Lefties are typically better at architecture and math. Right-handed people tend to be better and verbal skills
13. 25% of the Apollo astronauts were left-handed
14. Close to 30 million people in the US are left-handed
15. Lefties are more likely to suffer from asthma and allergies
16. Left-Handed people adjust better than right handed people when their dominant hand is damaged
17. The longest words that can be typed with only the left hand are sweater dresses and tesserae decades
18. There are a few members of the royal family who were lefties, including, the queen’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William
19. Lefties are more likely to have insomnia
20. August 13th is International Left-Handers Day
21. Osama Bin Laden, The Boston Strangler and Jack the Ripper were left handed
22. Lefties can see better underwater
23. Left handed people tend to have a shorter fuse. John McEnroe is a lefty. Need I say more?
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