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There are some facts you probably didn't know about left-hand users (south paws) the shocking one is at 28! Here are just the few details I could get about left-handers
1. Make up roughly 12% of the population.
2. More likely to have allergies.
3. More prone to migraines.
4.More likely to be insomniacs.
5.Use the right side of the brain the most.
6.Three times more likely to become alcoholics – the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol!
7.More likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale.
8.Tend to reach puberty 4 to 5 months later than right handers.
9.More likely to suffer stuttering and dyslexia.
10. Twice as likely to be a manBetter at 3D perception and thinking.
11.Better at multi-tasking.
12.Live on average 9 years less than right handed people.
13. 39% more likely to be homosexual.
Who knew!?Make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, boxers and fencers (almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties)Celebrate left handed day once a year – August 13th – international left-handers day.
14. Draw figures facing to the right.
15.Recover from strokes faster.
16.More likely to pursue creative careers.
17.Of the eight most recent U.S Presidents, 4 have been left handedLeft handed college graduates go on to become 26% richer than right handed graduates.
18. On a QWERTY keyboard there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only 187 are typed with the right hand.
19. Adjust to seeing underwater quicker.
20.Less able to roll their tongue than a righty.
21.Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right.
22. In the Talmud, the Chief of Satans or Prince of Demons is named Samael, which is associated with the Hebrew word for left side, se’mol. The angel Michael sits on God’s right-hand side, while Samael is on his left-hand side. This attribution of evil to the left and good to the right appears in various forms throughout the world.
23. Research has shown a link between trauma during gestation or during birth with an increased chance of being left-handed.
Stressed mothers are more likely to have a left-handed child
24. The word “dexterity” shows a right-handed bias. The term dexter means “right” and refers to being “right-handed” on both sides. The Incas thought left-handers were capable of healing and that they possessed magical abilities.
25. The North American Zuni tribe believed left-handedness signified good luck.cHerbert Hoover is believed to be the first left-handed president, though James Garfield could write Greek with the left hand and Latin with the right.
26. Many artistic representations of the devil show him to be left-handed.In witchcraft texts in medieval Europe, it was the left hand that was used to harm or curse another person. To affect a curse, witches were instructed to silently touch the recipient with the left hand, which would convey the curse. Additionally, the devil supposedly gives the gathering a benediction with the left hand, as opposed to the right-handed blessing of the Christian church. He would also baptize or anoint with his left hand.
27. During the Spanish Inquisition, lefties were more likely to be tortured.
28. Lefties are natural maths wizard.
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