10 Facts About Left Handed People You Were Not Aware

• 11:01 am May 18, 2018
• vignesh

Left-handedness, this trait is at times called "sinistrality" — means a person prefers to make use of his left hand rather than the right one for day to day activities, such as writing. Most people who have studied left-handedness believe that approximately 10 percent of the people in the world are left-handed. It is far less common than right handedness.

Only 10% of them

Researchers have found that around only 10 per cent of the entire world's population is left-handed and this has remained majorly the case for thousands of years.

In addition to this, men are also more likely to be left-handed.

No left hand, hand-shakes

We tend to greet each other primarily with right hand shakes, and this has slowly become a habit, we never questioned this ritual though.

This is mainly because Left-hand shakes are considered to be a sign of disrespect. This found its origin in the middle ages where people used to use their left hand to wipe after going to the toilet.

The famous Nadal Story

Easily one of the finest players to have graced the game of tennis, Rafael Nadal is one of the very few left handed players on the circuit

Initially a right hander, he switched to playing left handed and there is a famous myth that his coach felt this would give him an advantage.

They are called southpaws

Lefties are also called "southpaws".

The term was originated from baseball where a player's skillset is described as a left-handed pitcher.

Vastly talented bunch

Be it sports, be it academics, the much of left handers always excel as compared to the right handed ones.

Case in point being, a left handed cricketer is always said to have the grace which always missing in the right handed ones.

Royal Family

Though we aren't sure whether it runs in the genes or not, but the royal family for sure has its own share of left handers

Be it Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, and Prince William all of them are left handed.

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Certainly got to do with age

Studies have found that women who are pregnant in their 40’s are 128 percent more likely to give birth to left handed babies than the women who give birth in their 20’s.

Quite creative folks

Earlier there was a time when a left handed person was said to possess more criminal behaviour.

However, over time it has been found that, left handers are far more creative and musically inclined than their right handed counterparts.

They have invaded the space

Among the group of Apollo astronauts who were readying themselves for a space mission, one fourth of them were left handers.

Even they are part of group

It is surprising to know the percentage of left and right paws is equally split among the animals like cats and mice.

They have an even mixture of both.