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 metric system is a widely adopted decimalized system of measurement that derives from decimal numeral system being the consequence of us having 10 digits (fingers and thumbs).

Before the metric system became a standard in Europe, the local laws on measures were set by trade guilds on a city-by-city basis. In Switzerland, the survey of 1838 discovered that the foot had 37 different regional variations.

At the end of 18th century Louis XVI of France commissioned the group of scientists to develop a unified, practical and simple system of measurement to replace the disparate systems used back then. The scientists come up with the metric system that was derived from the properties of natural objects, i.e. the size of the Earth, the density of water, and relations between these. For instance, 1 meter was originally defined as 1/40,000,000th of the polar circumference of the Earth.

Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization, O.I.P.C., ICPO) was founded in Austria in 1923 to facilitate cross-border police cooperation. The word 'Interpol', contraction of 'international police', was chosen in 1946 as the telegraphic address.

Interpol is the world's third largest international organization, after the United Nations and FIFA, with 186 member countries financed by annual contributions of about €41.7 million from its member countries.

It was located in Germany from 1942 to 1946, and its staff and facilities were used as an information gathering unit for the Gestapo. After World War II, the agency was reconstituted and headquartered in Paris. Today the organization is headquartered in Lyon, France.

The United Nations recognized Interpol as an intergovernmental organization in 1971.

Its principal services are to provide its member countries with information on the whereabouts of international criminals, to held seminars on crime detection science, and to facilitate the apprehension of criminals.

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.

Baht is the currency of Thailand, and also is a unit of gold measure equal to 15.244 grams.

Dollar is the currency in several countries and regions. Its name comes from German "taler" (thaler), a coin minted from silver in 1519 in northwest Bohemia.

Euro is the currency of twelve European Union member states and the single currency for over 300 million Europeans.

Swiss franc is the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The word "franc" is believed to derive from the Latin inscription "francorum rex" ("King of the Franks") on early French coins, or from the French "franc", meaning "free".

Hryvnia (grivna) is the currency of Ukraine. The word "hryvnia" come from the Slavic "hryva", which meant "neck", and later something valuable worn around the neck, usually made of silver or gold.