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SouthPaw Facts, Fiction and Fun

This section will be updated as often as I can find stuff to post here.
I don't plan for it to be a skimpy offering.

* There are at least 20 million people in the United States that are left handed and 500 million left-handers on the planet.

* The different sides that clothing is buttoned is traced back to Victorian times. It was easier for the maids that dressed Victorian noble women to button from right to left. Noble men usually dressed themselves so they buttoned left to right.

* The quote, "If the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, then left-handed people must be the only ones in their right minds." was written by W.C Fields

* The three candidates who ran in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, George Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot were all left-handed.

* More men are left handed than women

* Twins have a high percentage of lefthandedness

* Living organisms are made up of only left-handed amino acids.