On August 13th, a special day called Left Handers Day takes place, where left handers celebrate the fact they are left handed. I'd thought I'd like to point this out to the wiki about this event and I hope some left handed users can celebrate it on the 13th. So just to make you aware of this event I'd though I make this blog. Before the event takes place, I will give some interesting facts about left handed people that point out some differences between left handers and right handers;

• Left handed people make up around 5% to 10% of the population
• Left handed people tend to be more independent as a result of having to adapt to a world which is largely built for right handed individuals.
• Left handers are more likely to have allergies
• More prone to migranes
• More likely to be insomniacs
• Use the right side of the brain the most
• Three times more likely to become alcoholics – the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol!
• More likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale
• Tend to reach puberty 4 to 5 months later than right handers
• More likely to suffer stuttering and dyslexia
• Twice as likely to be a man
• Better at 3D perception and thinking
• Better at multi-tasking
• Live on average 9 years less than right handed people
• 39% more likely to be homosexual
• Make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, boxers and fencers (almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties)
• Draw figures facing to the right
• Recover from strokes faster
• More likely to pursue creative careers
• Of the seven most recent U.S Presidents, 4 have been left handed
• Left handed college graduates go on to become 26% richer than right handed graduates
• On a QWERTY keyboard there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only 187 are typed with the right hand.
• Adjust to seeing underwater quicker
• Less able to roll their tongue than a righty
• Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right

I'm left handed myself, so I'll be celebrating for sure. In the comments tell me if you're left handed, if you are going to celebrate on the 13th and if some of these facts apply to you. I'm very curious to find who are the lefties on the wiki =3