Fun fact! The word sinister comes from the Latin word, sinistra, which means left, as it was generally considered evil to be left-handed. Sorry, 10% of the world’s population. 🤷🏻♀️)
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Before the era of modern hygiene, right-handed people performed unsanitary tasks with their left hands. So references to the left hand as evil, while "non inclusive", was not entirely arbitrary.
