Are you sophisticated?  This is a great question that everybody thinks they have real answers to, but you know what, you are sophisticated but not so sophisticated as knowing everything, right? After going through this separate list, you will be half way to being sophisticated.

YOUR BODY

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Approximately two-thirds of a person's body weight is water. Blood is 92% water. The brain is 75% water and muscles are 75% water.
• Your middle fingernail grows the fastest.
• Nigerians are the strongest people in the world.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• A typical athlete's heart churns out 25 to 30 litres (up to 8 gallons) of blood per minute.
• The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.
• Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
• A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
• 55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.
• It is impossible to sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time.
• Einstein's brain was of average size (1375 grams - 49oz).
• The human head contains 22 bones. More on the head and brains
• On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
• The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant
• The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.

THE ANIMAL

Is a world population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals. There are more than a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird species is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.

• A house fly lives only 14 days.
• African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
• The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
• An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h).
• An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
• Pork is the world's most widely-eaten meat.
• Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren't any at that time.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
• The sailfish is the fastest swimmer, reaching 68 mph (109 km/h), although a black marlin has been clocked at 80 mph (128 km/h).
• The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
• The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
• Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
• New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.

MONEY

• The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
• Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
• The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
• Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount on Christmas gifts.
• 80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.
• In 1900, the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce. It reached $600 in 1930, now struggling to reach $400 per ounce.
• Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth.
• The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.
• In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.
• Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion.
• Tourism is the world's biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.
• In 1865, Frederik Idestam founded a wood-pulp mill in southern Finland, naming it Nokia. It rapidly gained worldwide recognition, attracting a large number of workforce and the town Nokia was born. In 1898, the Finnish Rubber Works company opened in Nokia, taking on the town name in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. In 1967, the companies consolidated to become the Nokia Group. The recession of the 1990s led the group to focus on the mobile phone market.