24 Facts about Left-Handed People That You Did Not Know

Left-handers are the strange ones. While they make up 10% of the population, it seems like society has forgotten about them. On the other hand, according to many old wives tales, these people are a gift from the universe.

While the exact reason behind this phenomenon is still unclear, recent research shows that there might be a link between human genes and the environment and our surrounding. It is also believed that most left-handers come from a family in which some of the members are already ‘lefty’.

The team of researchers found that the brain doesn’t function the same in right-handed and left-handed individuals. Hence, left-handers are more independent as they are forced to deal with the right-handed world.
Here are 24 facts about left-handers that you were probably unaware of:

1. It is estimated that 5-10 percent of the world population is left-handed.

2. The word ‘left’ dates back to Anglo-Saxon era and it derives from the word ‘lyft”, which means weak or broken.

3. Left-handers use the right side of their brain.

4. Left-handed people are great in many sports, particularly tennis, baseball, boxing and swimming

5. More than 40 percent of the most famous tennis players are left-handed.

6. Left-handers are better in seeing clearly underwater compared to right-handed individuals.

7. There is a strong link between alcohol intake and “left handedness”. In fact, left-handers are at 3 percent higher link of being addicted to it.

8. It has been scientifically shown that left-handed college graduates eventually become richer by 26 percent more than right-handed ones.

9. Left-handers are late-bloomers, which means that they reach puberty five months later than right-handers.

10. Animals can also be left-handed (left-pawed).

11. In the U.S, four out of seven states are left-handed.

12. Some of the longest words can be written with the left-hand include sweater, dresses, and tesserae decades.

13. In the past, left-handedness has been associated with criminal, homosexuality, and neurosis. Interestingly enough, it has been linked to musicality and creativity, too.

14. Left-handers are more prone to insomnia compared to right-handers.

15. Currently, there are more than 30 million left-handers in the U.S.

16. Statistics show that women who give birth in their 40s are at 128 percent higher chance of giving birth to a left-handed child.

17. Left-handers have their special day! August 13th is the International Left-Hander`s Day.

18. Due to their ability to process information more rapidly, left-handers experience emotions differently than right-handers.

19. Left-handed individuals are great in mathematics, spatial awareness, and architecture.

20. Medical experts claim that when a left-handed individual injures their dominant hand, they learn to use the right one very fast. This is much more difficult for right-handers.

21. Left-handers are more prone to allergies and asthma compared to right-handers.

22. As already discussed earlier, left-handedness is a characteristic which runs in the family. For instance, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother, and Prince Charles are/were left-handed.

23. Out of the four Apollo astronauts, one of them was left-handed.

24. One of the most notorious killers in human history were left-handers. For instance, Jack the Ripper, Osama bin Laden, and Boston Stranglers were all left-handed.