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August 13th International Day of Left Handed

August 13th International Day of Left Handed

August 13, 2013 By 1 Comment

The Left-handers Club was formed in 1990, but it all started after 2 years, in 1992, when the organization International of Left-handers  adopted an initiative declaring the 13th of August as the International Day of Left Handed.

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To raise public awareness of and to increase the awareness of the difficulties and frustrations that left-handers face daily, a club in Britain decided to tick off in the calendar, on August 13, the International Day of Left Handed. Their initiative was actually a replica made ​​to the industry representatives that encourages discrimination and launching products on the market only for right-handed. So far, science has not found a definitive explanation for priority use of the left hand instead of the right, but assume that it is a genetic problem.

Among the personalities who enroll in the camp of left handed include: Charlie Chaplin, Prince William of Great Britain, Marilyn Monroe, Leonardo da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Martina Navratilova, Nicole Kidman, Gerald Ford, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

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Interesting facts about left-handed according to a U.S. study, 15% of the world population is left-handed. In case of men, the probability of left-handed part of the camp is two times higher than the female audience. Lefties have the potential to become geniuses. 20% of members of Mensa, the international organization of people with an IQ above average admitted that use the left hand over the other. The results of research showed that left-handed men are 15% richer than their high school peers and the percentage increases to 26% for high school graduates. The risk of becoming an alcoholic is a left-handed three times higher than for a person who uses only his right hand. If both parents are left-handed, there is a probability of 50% as their child to inherit. The percentage drops to 2% for children whose parents left-handed right-handed. Lefty hate books and spiral notebooks and are better at games than right-handed. They reach puberty on average 4-5 months later than right-handed. In contrast, the risk to die nine years earlier compared to last category.

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