Top 10 facts about left-handedness
In 1976, the Lefthanders International organisation declared August 13 to be International Lefthanders’ Day and it has been celebrated on this date ever since.
Top 10 Facts About Left-handedness
Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal plays left handed but writes right handed
1. Around 10 per cent of people are left-handed, with more male left-handers than female.
2. Four of the last five US Presidents have been left-handed: Ronald Reagan, George Bush senior, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
3. Studies have shown that right-handed people tend to scratch with the left hand and left-handed people with the right.
4. Research has also shown that right-handed men generally put trousers on with the right leg leading; left-handed men go left leg first.
5. Right-handed people tend to have hair that swirls clockwise, from the whorl or crown; left-handers’ hair may swirl in either direction.
Female cats tend to be right-pawed
6. It is stated that polar bears are left-handed but this seems based on a single account by an Inuit elder and has never been verified…
7. …but research in 2003 appeared to show that walruses are predominantly right-flippered.
8. Female cats tend to be right-pawed; tom cats tend to be left-pawed.
9. Among college educated people in the USA, left-handers earn more than right-handers.
10. Paul McCartney plays his guitar left-handed.