August 13, 2011: International Left-Handers' Day

1. Today will be sunny with a high near 84, according to reports from the National Weather Service.

Left-handers, who account for around 10 percent of the world's population, spend 364 days a year in a world that seems to be built for right-handed people. August 13 is the exception. In 1976, a special day was created just for lefties and now it is celebrated annually all over the world.

So if you don't have sinistrophobia (that's a fear of left-handedness or anything on the left side of your body), read on for some fun left-handed facts.

2. In sets of twins, there is a tendency for one of them to be left-handed.

3. Neurologists have said that left-handers are able to adjust to seeing underwater better than right-handers. Olympic swimming champion Mark Spitz happens to be a leftie.

4. There have been eight left-handed U.S. Presidents. For the record they are: James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

5. Left-handed? Then you are in some interesting company. Some famous lefties past and present  include: Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Benjamin Franklin, Julius Caesar, Judy Garland, Jimmi Hendrix, Michelangelo, Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Seinfeld, Oscar de la Hoya and Babe Ruth. A much longer list can be found here.