Righties and lefties

1. About 10-12 percent of people in the world are left-handed. 2. The official "Left-handers Day" is celebrated on August 13. This annual event, initiated in 1992, honors left-handers and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations of lefties, who live in the world, arranged primarily for right-handers. 3. At various times left-handedness was seen differently: as a habit, as a sign of the devil, a sign of neurosis, rebellious nature, but also as a trait, meaning creativity and musical ability. 4. Testing by the University of Saint Lawrence in New York found that among left-handers more people with IQ over 140, than among right-handers. Famous left-handed thinkers have Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Fraklin. 5. Mother, whose age is above 40 years at the time the baby is born 128 times more likely to give birth lefty than mothers aged 20 years. 6. Among the Eskimos, each considered as a potential left-handed witch. In Morocco, lefties called s'ga, word for devil. At Inca left-hander can heal, and have magical powers. North American Zuni peoples of left-handedness is considered a sign of good luck. 7. In many Islamic countries, people do not eat with your left hand, which is considered "unclean" as it is used to cleanse the body after a bowel movement. Also, the public display of the left hand is against the law in some Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia. 8. Despite the fact that almost 90 percent of people are right-handed, including cats, rats and mice the dominance of one of the arms (or more precisely the paws), equally distributed between pravolapostyu and levolapostyu. 9. Studies have shown that left-handers are more talented in the orientation in space, mathematics and architecture. Right-handed people is more gifted in verbal skills. 10. Left-handedness is hereditary. Thus, left-handers in the royal family are the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William. 11. Links between the right and left side of the brain more quickly from left-handers. This means that the left-handed information is transmitted faster, which makes them more effective in dealing with multiple stimuli. 12. The left side has historically been considered a weak Bole and "female." However, according to recent statistics more men are left-handed than women. 13. Premature babies are likely to be left-handed. In addition, infants who received low Apgar score at birth are more often left-handers than those who received higher scores. 14. The researchers found that on average, the left-hander reach sexual maturity later than righties. 15. Only about 1 percent of people in the world really are equally fluent in both hands. 16. Studies have shown that if the southpaw hurt his dominant hand, he will learn to master the other hand is easier than the right-hander. 17. According to the Journal of nervous and mental diseases, the brain processes the left-hander emotions differently, and left-handers are more susceptible to negative emotions such as anger. 18. Some scholars have suggested that the left-hander was originally in the womb with a twin that did not survive and this phenomenon has been called "the vanished twin." 19.Kogda baby lay on his stomach, the right-hander turned his head to the right. Lefty usually rotated head left or preferred audio side. 20.Sredi most famous left-handers have Paul McCartney, Bill Gates, Fidel Castro, Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Lewis Carroll, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Beethoven, Nietzsche Mark Twain, Prokofiev, Goethe Kafka and others.

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