Info came from Left-HandersDay.com. Your one-stop source for everything left-handed. Wee?
Left-handers are more likely than right handers to be creative geniuses. This is supported by higher percentages of left-handers than normal in certain jobs and professions - music and the arts, media in general. Left-handers are also generally better at 3-dimensional perception and thinking, leading to more left-handed architects than normal. Left-handers are also usually pretty good at most ball sports and things involving hand-to-eye co-ordination.
The view that left-handers are clumsy and awkward is not down to their natural abilities, but being forced to use right-handed tools and machinery which is completely back-to-front for them.
Left-handers have been linguistically abused for centuries! There are hundreds of (mainly abusive) terms for left-handers.
There are a lot of sayings where "right" is good and "left" is bad; e.g., "being in your right mind," "the divine right of kings," it will be all right in the end," as against being "left out," having "two left feet," or "a left-handed compliment."
Even the word for "left-handed" in many languages is very negative. In Dutch, linkshandig, to "have two left hands," means to be clumsy. In German, links and linkisch means awkward.
(I found these two sayings to be the most interesting, as they contain the word "link." ^^)
§ As many as 9 out of 10 people are right-handed. 10% of men are left-handed, while only 8% of women are.
§ Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.
§ There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handed.
§ Stuttering and dyslexia occur more often in left-handers (particularly if they are forced to change their writing hand as a child).
§ Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater. (And still the Water Temple was hard.)
§ Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing. (Fencing, swordfighting...)
§ Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers. (I don't think I have a comment for this one. @_o)
§ 4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.
§ 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.
§ Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
§ All polar bears are left handed.
§ Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (That's not gonna be good for Hyrule.)