Happy Left Handed Day

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International Left Hander’s Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1976. It was started by Lefthander’s International.  This yearly event celebrates left-handedness and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience every day in a world designed for right-handers. So take a minute to appreciate your left-handed friends and loved ones. Don’t forget to send them a Left-Handed Day Ecard to show your respect.

In Technology

• 4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed
• Bill Gates is left-handed
• On a QWERTY keyboard, there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only 187 are typed with the right hand.

Notable Facts

• Tests conducted by St. Lawrence University in New York found that there were more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous left-handed intellectuals include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin
• Left-handedness runs in families. Lefties in the British royal family include the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Prince William.
• 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts was left-handed – 250% more than the normal level.
• The lengthy list of left-handed leaders includes four of the last seven commanders in chief — President Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford — as well as past presidents James Garfield, Harry Truman, Henry Ford and Thomas Jefferson (ambidextrous). In fact, there’s a rumor that Ronald Regan was born a leftie, but stringent schoolteachers converted him to a righty when he was young.
• Between 10-12% of people on earth are “lefties.” Women are more likely to be right-handed than men by about 4 percentage points.
• Left-handed college graduates go on to become 26% richer than right-handed graduates
• Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania awards up to $1,475 in academic scholarships to students who have top academic records and who are left-handed.

Career Facts

• More likely to pursue creative careers.  Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, and Beethoven are amongst these creative left-handers.
• Lefties are also called “southpaws”.   The term was coined in baseball to describe a left-handed pitcher.  Manny Pacquiao is left-handed.
• Make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, boxers and fencers (almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties)
• While many people are left-handed, very few are 100% left-handed. For example, many Left handers golf and bat right-handed. On the other hand, there is a high percentage of righties who are 100% right-handed.

Health

• Recover from strokes faster
• Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right
• Stuttering and dyslexia occur more often in left-handers (particularly if they are forced to change their writing hand as a child, like King of England George VI).
• Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers
• Mothers who are over 40 at the time of a child’s birth are 128% more likely to have a left-handed baby than a woman in her 20s
• There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handed
• When placed on their tummies, right-handed babies tend to turn their heads to the right. Left-handed babies usually turn their heads to the left or they don’t show any preference.
• Research suggests that left-handers are slightly more prone to allergies and asthma than right-handers are.
• Studies have shown that if a left-hander injures his dominant hand, he has an easier time learning to use the other hand than his right-handed counterparts.
• Right-handed people operate on the left side of the brain. Left-handed people use the right side.
• Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.

Other Random Facts

• It is believed that all polar bears are left-handed. Also, see Polar Bear Day.
• Tuesdays are Lefties luck day.
• There is a rumor that octopuses have but one right hand. Scientists are diligently studying this issue.
• Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.
• Everyone is a Left Hander in Left Hand, West Virginia.
• In school, have you ever seen a left-handed desk they don’t exist.
• Novelty coffee mugs are made with the picture or text for a right-handed pick-up.
• Scissors are for right-handers.
• Sinistrophobia is the fear of left-handedness or things on the left side.
• During the 1600’s people, thought left-handers were witches and warlocks.

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Originally posted 2015-08-13 23:08:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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