HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LEFT-HANDERS DAY!!!!
Besides using scissors and spiral notebooks, being left-handed is the bee's knees. My mom and grandma are both lefties. My best friend is a lefty. And both Alex's parents are lefties too!
1. Between 10-12% of people on earth are “lefties.” Men are more likely to be left-handed than women.
2. Studies have suggested that left-handers are more talented in spatial awareness, math, and architecture.
3. Connections between the right and left sides of the brain are faster in left-handed people. This means information is transferred faster, making left-handers more efficient in dealing with multiple stimuli and using both sides of the brain more easily.
4. There are two divergent theories regarding wearing the wedding ring on the left hand. One theory is that it started with the ancient Egyptians, who believed that despite the left hand’s supposed flaws, placing the ring on this hand brought it nearer to the heart. Another theory attributes the origin to the Greeks and Romans, who wore the rings to ward off evil associated with the left hand.
5. Left-handers are more likely to pursue creative careers.
6. They are usually on polar ends of the intelligence spectrum, either likely to be geniuses (20% of MENSA is left-handed) or likely to have autism, stuttering problems, and dyslexia.
7. They are more prone to allergies, migraines, insomnia, and alcoholism.
8. They're more affected by fear. In a recent experiement, lefties who watched an eight-minute clip from the film Silence of the Lambs exhibited more symptoms of PTSD than righties. That may be because the right side of the brain, which is dominant in lefties, is more involved in emotions like anger and fear.
9. Lefties adjust more readily to seeing underwater.
10. Lefties excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming, and fencing.
11. Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers.
12. 4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed. 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed. And 4 of the last 7 Presidents are left-handed.
13. About 40% of left-handers are homosexual.
Famous Left-Handers:
Tom Cruise | Leonardo da Vinci | Albert Einstein | |
Benjamin Franklin | Whoopi Goldberg | Cary Grant | |
Paul McCartney | Michelangelo | Jay Leno | |
Julia Roberts | Oprah Winfrey | Babe Ruth | |
Fidel Castro | Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin | Marilyn Monroe | |
Henry Ford | Helen Keller | Mark Twain | |
Bart Simpson | Dan Ackroyd | Tim Allen | |
Charlie Chaplin | Robert DeNiro | Jimi Hendrix | |
Jerry Seinfeld | Lewis Carroll | Paul Simon | |
H.G. Wells | Celine Dion | Larry Bird | |
Mozart | Beethoven | Aristotle | |
Barack Obama | Angelina Jolie | Brad Pitt | |
Alexander the Great | Julius Caesar | Marie Curie | |
Thomas Jefferson | Colin Powell | Gandhi | |
Charlemagne | Horatio Nelson | Ramses II | |
Billy the Kid (debated) | John Dillinger | Bob Dylan | |
David Letterman | Schumann | O.J. Simpson | |
Bill Gates |
| Judy Garland | |
Dick Van Dyke | Hans Christian Anderson | Sylvester Stallone | |
Sara Amini | Sara Amini | Sara Amini |
Here's me in Orlando a few years ago at a Left-Handers store at Disneyworld.
If you know any or are a lefty yourself, I'm sending a virtual left-handed high-five today!!
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