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🗓️ 15 May 2012
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Many popular anecdotes tell how and why some people are left-handed, but the true facts are even more interesting.
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0:00.0 | Are you one of the 8-10% of us who are left-handed? |
0:07.3 | Did you know that due to living in a right-handed world, you're incrementally more likely to |
0:12.2 | have a work or tool-related injury, or some industrial accident, and as a result, statistically |
0:18.9 | likely to have a shorter lifespan than the other 92% of us. |
0:24.4 | That is just one of the things about left-handed people that we're going to put under the microscope |
0:29.6 | of the skeptical eye. |
0:32.0 | Left-handed myths are right now unskeptoid. |
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1:23.6 | You're listening to Skeptoid. |
1:25.2 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
1:28.9 | Left-handed myths and facts. |
1:32.6 | Pretty much any internet page discussing left-handedness, facts and fiction contains lots |
1:38.1 | of interesting little anecdotes, such as the history of how left-handed people have |
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