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

-August 13th is Left-Handers Day. Launched in 1992, this yearly event celebrates left-handedness and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience every day in a world designed for right-handers.



-About 30 million people in the United States are left-handed

-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

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