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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

At various times in history, left-handedness has been seen as many things: a nasty habit, a mark of the devil, a sign of neurosis, rebellion, criminality, and homosexuality. It has also been seen as a trait indicating creativity and musical abilities.

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Today's Random Fact:

Between 10-12 percent of people on earth are "lefties." Women are more likely to be right-handed than men by about 4 percentage points.


Tests conducted by St. Lawrence University in New York found that there were more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous left-handed intellectuals include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.




Bonus Fact:

The word left in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft, which means weak or broken. The Oxford English Dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy, inapt, characterized by underhanded dealings, ambiguous, doubtful, questionable, ill-omened, inauspicious, and illegitimate.


Even the word "dexterity" shows a right-handed bias. The term dexter means "right" and refers to being "right-handed" on both sides.