Today marks World Left-Handed Day, created in the United States in 1976 to promote awareness of the difficulties faced by these people, their advantages and disadvantages.

Because of this trait, many specifics are attributed to left-handed people, but because of it, they also encounter many difficulties in a world adapted by the 'right'.

Left-handed people are thought to make up about 12-15 percent of the world's population, and experts estimate that the number of left-handed people has almost quadrupled in the last hundred years - probably because they are no longer forced to write with their left hand. the right hand.

There are more who have learned to use their right hand as dexterously as their left, which is made possible by the particular structure and physiology of the brain.

In right-handed people, the cerebral hemispheres develop asymmetrically, ie. the left half of the brain, which controls the right side of the right-handed body, is more developed. There is no opposite case with leftists.

The cerebral hemispheres are equally developed, but left-handed people have significantly more nerve fibers in the brain than right-handed people, and it is these fibers that are essential for the fastest transfer of information between the cerebral hemispheres.

Left-handed people are individualistic, creative, intuitive, think strategically, have an extremely good musical memory, a sense of proportion, and therefore are highly represented in art and architecture.

Many famous people were left-handed - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Albert Einstein, Napoléon Bonaparte, Fidel Castro, Henry Ford, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, Greta Garbo...

According to a study, left-handers live 9 years less than those who write with their right hand.

As strange, unusual and illogical as it sounds - lefties have a much easier time adjusting to underwater vision.

Research has shown a high rate of left-handedness among top athletes, especially in one-on-one sports such as tennis, boxing and fencing.