Each of us, rummaging in school memories, will certainly find a tragic story of how the teacher in front of the whole class re-educated one of the students to write not with his left hand, but with his right. And maybe even this story will be about you?
Fortunately, today the attitude to the biggest "minority" on the planet has changed - on the school bench no one else has the right to "adjust" this individuality, the light industry began to produce goods that facilitate their life, well, we can just congratulate the lefties on their international day, remembering facts that even they did not know about themselves!
1. And start with the main thing!
Did you know that people who prefer left hand use less than 15%, well, or every seventh? And this number is shrinking at an accelerated pace, given that in the Bronze Age lefties were half of all people, and in the stone - 25%. But the most unpleasant thing is that annually more than 2500 left-handed people say goodbye to life as a result of accidents involving the use of things made for right-handed people.
2. By the way, there are more men among lefties!
3. Well, if you just recently became a parent, then it's very easy to determine who your baby is - a left-hander or a right-hander.
Put the baby on his tummy and see - the righties always turn their heads to the right, and left-handed - to the left.
4. According to statistics, left-handed people are incredibly talented and creative people.
They have good musical abilities and they often have an absolute hearing. And among the non-creative professions, the left-handed "ahead of the whole planet" in the field of mathematics and architecture!
5. Did you know which of your favorite celebrities preferably uses the left hand?
Then hold on - Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt and even Angelina Jolie! Among the dead left-handed stars, one can not help recalling Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix. Maybe "left-handedness" is the key to success?
6. But that's not all ... The left-hander is smarter!
Yes, yes, scientists from the University of St. Lawrence conducted tests and found that the results above 140 points showed only left-handers. And in order not to be unfounded, let the names of the cleverest of them - Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin - stay here.
7. Now prepare for the unexpected turn - the Devil was also left-handed!
Okay, we can not confirm this, but it's enough to remember that Satan always baptized with his left hand, and the clergymen are right. By the way, even from the Latin "southpaw" is translated as "sinister" ...
8. And if we started talking about translations, then, alas, often the word "left-handed" is abusive.
The German "linkisch" is a clumsy, French "gauche" - dishonest, Italian "mancino" - curve or crippled, and in Morocco "s'ga" is the devil or the damned!
9. Incredible, but in Japan, just a century ago, "left-handedness" was considered a sufficient reason for ... a divorce!
10. Did you know that Jack the Ripper and Osama Bin Laden were also left-handed?
11. It's sad, but the left-handers live 9 years less than right-handers ...
12. Just do not get upset, because, left-handed was every fourth astronaut of Apollo!
13. And more good news - among men who received higher education, left-handers by 26% became richer than right-handers!
14. Did you forget about wedding rings?
After all, they are worn on the left hand, believing that "vein-amoris" or "the enamored vein" will connect the fourth finger straight to the heart.
15. It is interesting that women who give birth for the first time after 40 years are 128% more likely to become the left-hander's mom!
16. And "left-handedness" is more often found in twins than in the general population as a whole ...
17. You will not believe, but the terms "left-handed" and "right-hander" are applicable not only to people, but also to our lesser brothers.
"Mimicry" fact - cats are often right-handed, among the mice the percentage of left-handers has reached 28, but whoever always sucks only his left paw is polar bears. Yes, these clumsy all-all-all lefties!