1. IKEA sells one Billy Bookshelf every 10 seconds.
2. IKEA uses approximately 1% of the world’s entire commercial supply of wood.
3. Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, has a net worth of $4.2 billion.
4. IKEA is an acronym that stand for Ingvar Kamprad (founder), Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown).
5. IKEA products are named rather than numbered because I.K is dyslexic.
6. In the UK, 1 in 5 people sleep on an IKEA mattress.
7. There are more copies of the IKEA catalogue printed each year than the Bible.
8. The largest IKEA store in the world is located in Stockholm, Sweden. It covers 594,167 square feet, which is bigger than 10 American football fields.
9. IKEA was the first company to feature a portrayal of a gay relationship in one if its ads.
10. Since 1960, IKEA has sold more than 11.6 billion Swedish meatballs in the UK alone.
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