Left-handedness Famous lefties, and some handedness facts

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Here's a bit of this and that concerning lefties.

Some famous lefties: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Franklin, H. Ross Perot, Joan of Arc, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Queen Victoria of England, Helen Keller, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Edward R. Murrow, Jay Leno, Richard Simmons, F. Lee Bailey, Mark Twain, Phil Collins, Jim Hendrix, Cole Porter, Paul Simon, Dan Aykroyd, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Charlie Chaplin, Whoopie Goldberg, Cary Grant, Goldie Hawn, Angelina Jolie, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Sarah Jessica Parker, Oscar de la Hoya, Terry Labonte, Boomer Esiason, Kenny Stabler, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Whitey Ford, Casey Stengel and Tommy Lasorda.

Fascinating facts:

• Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handed.
• Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.
• Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing.
• Left-handers usually reach puberty four to five months after right-handers.
• Four of the five original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.
• One in four Apollo astronauts were left-handed.

Sites: There are many Web sites on being left-handed. Among them are www.lefthander.com and www.lefthandersday.com, the sources for this information.