Left-handed people make up about 10% of the population. In a world dominated by right-handed people, it sometimes feels unfair for the left-hand dominant ones that many items are made to be operated by the right hand.
However, being a lefty is not such a bad thing. In fact, left-handed people come with some advantages that right-handed people can only dream about.
While it’s not quite clear why this is so, scientists think it has to do with the brain. Left-handed people have different parts of the brain dominant, so it perhaps has something to do with that.
Interestingly, the Latin word for ‘left’ is ‘sinister’. Do lefties hide something others don’t know about?
In fact, scientists have linked the Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) to left-handedness.
The longest words that can be typed using solely the left hand are dresses, sweater, decades, and tesserae. This makes lefties quite the fast typers.
Left-handed people might experience more asthma attacks in their childhood, compared to right-handed people.
Worldwide, it has been estimated that lefties take up around 10% of the population, or in other words – 700 million people are left handed.
Having their right brain dominant, they are better at visualizing and at 3D perception. That’s why there are more left-handed architects than right-handed ones.
Being in a right-hand dominant society, many people choose the right line when standing in one. Lefties, however, tend to choose the left line.
The left-handed U.S. presidents are as follows: James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
The French word for ‘left’, ‘gauche’, also means awkward or clumsy.
Statistics have shown that left-handed men who have graduated from college earn 13% more than their right-handed counterparts. However, statistics show that left-handed women earn 5% less than right-handed women.
Are you one of those 10%? Do you know a leftie?
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