IKEA is a retailer selling low-price furniture, home accessories, bathrooms and kitchens around the world.

IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden. The name IKEA comes from the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd) and his home village (Agunnaryd).

Founded in 1943, IKEA today has over 235 stores in more than 30 countries and more than 110,000 co-workers (this is the exact word they use in egalitarian IKEA).

A survey in 2007 ranked 80-year old Ingvar Kamprad the second most admired man in Sweden.

The most telephone numbers we see in the US television shows, movies, and fiction literary start with 555. These are fictitious numbers used to prevent prank calls to real people as there are many cases of people calling the numbers seen in the movies.

A demonstrative example of this situation is with the film Bruce Almighty. The makers of the movie chose not to use the prefix, and people whose phone numbers matched one mentioned in the film received many calls from callers asking for "God".

There are real numbers with prefix 555, but numbers 555-0100 through 555-0199 were specifically reserved for fictional use some years ago. Recent films, however, do not always heed the limits, and some producers even acquire actual telephone numbers solely for the purpose of using them in the movie or on TV.

The official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was set up in 1927 as a non-profit organization with 36 members. In 2003 it had a voting membership of 5,816.

The gold-plated statuette is made of an alloy called britannia. It is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall and weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg). It depicts a knight with a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians.

There are few theories as to how the trophy became to be known as Oscar. One of the most popular stories is that Academy librarian Margaret Herrick said the statue looked like her uncle Oscar. The conversation was apparently overheard by a journalist who later used the moniker in an article. The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (1899, London, England – 1980, Los Angeles, USA) was a director and producer of over 90 suspense and thriller movies. His career started in 1920th, from the silent film era, and lasted for six decades to the colour motion picture era.

He briefly appeared in all of his movies beginning with The Lodger (1927). In Lifeboat (1944) he, however, appeared on a picture in a newspaper advertisement for weight loss that floated among some debris around the boat. Around that time he had lost a considerable amount of weight from dieting, so he was seen in both the "Before" and the "After" pictures. All his life he was overweight, and was at his heaviest in the late 1930s with over 300 pounds (136 kg).

When Hitchcock was a kid, after acting childishly he was sent by his father sent him to the local police station carrying a note. After reading this note the police officer on duty locked him in a cell for about ten minutes. Later he cited this phobia as the reason he never learned to drive. Moreover, in almost every Hitchcock’s film, the police either have no impact at all, or mistake important clues, or let the culprit go.

Courteney Cox was originally asked to play Rachel, but she asked to play Monica instead after reading the parts.

When Matt LeBlanc auditioned for the role he only had $11 dollars to his name. When the cast got their paychecks, the first thing that Jennifer Aniston bought was a car. Matt LeBlanc bought a hot dinner.

In the last few months of shooting Friends, Courteney Cox became pregnant, but, seeing as Monica wasn't supposed to be able to have a baby, they covered up her pregnancy by making her wear baggy clothes while shooting the show so no one could tell.

At one point, Jennifer Aniston was shooting this series, Bruce Almighty (2003) and Along Came Polly (2004) at the same time.

30-second commercial spots to take place in the final ever episode sold in the UK for 1.2 million GB pounds (approx $1.8 million), the most expensive commercial slots of any TV program in England with the exception of sports.