What do Billy Corgan and Dennis Quaid have in common?
They're both left-handed. They are among a long list of famous people—living and dead—who this day, Left-Handers' Day, is all about. President Barack Obama, Richard Dreyfuss, Laurence Fishburne, David Duchovny, Drew Barrymore, Judy Garland, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Benchley, Matt Groening (and his famous character, Bart Simpson), James Cameron, George Michael, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ringo Starr—all lefties. Just check out this list.
Did you know that left-handers, according to the Left-Handers' Day website, adjust more readily to seeing underwater? Or that four of the five original Macintosh computer designers were left-handed?
Lefties, the Left-Handers' Day website suggests you celebrate in this way: get your right-handed friends and family to try to do things (like stir food or draw a straight line) with their left hands. Anyone up for the challenge?
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