In your circle of friends, how many are left-handed? Here we leave you with five interesting facts about those eccentric lefties.
- Lefties have much easier access to both sides of the brain. This means creativity is much bigger in them. It has also been proven that there are more left-handed people with IQ scores over 140.
- Many of our favorite artists are left-handed, to name a few, we have Tom Cruise, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt. Also featured on the list are Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton.
- From the womb, babies already show signs of being left-handed. If the baby is left-handed, it’s going to have its head to the left, and if its right-handed, the head will fall to the right. Although it might be just a coincidence, it is something that is repeated in almost all cases.
- It has been shown that when a pregnant woman is over 40 years, the baby is 125% more likely to be left-handed. In the case of twins, there’s high chance that one of them is left-handed.
- Finally, did you know that International Left-handers day is on August 13? It was established in 1990.