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With biomass plants, the government wanted to ensure that the climate targets would be met. The government set aside 10 billion euros for the construction of 628 biomass plants. Objections to the biomass plants soon arose: they would not be as CO2-neutral as was assumed and there would be more useful ways to use the biomass.

In 1905, the popsicle was invented by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. He made a drink with water and some soda powder that he stirred through with a stick. Because his mother told him to go to sleep, he left the drink. When he woke up the next morning, it had frozen and the drink with the stick in it was frozen too. This was the first popsicle.

Columbus was looking for a faster sailing route to the Dutch East Indies. He planned to sail there via the West. With the financial support of the Spanish Queen Isabella, his ships left for the West, but instead of finding a new route to the Dutch East Indies there, he found the undiscovered continent of America.

John de Mol started the television station TIEN and invested millions in it. While the channel had many TV stars, the viewing figures remained very low. De Mol's channel was losing millions of euros every year and eventually De Mol stopped the channel and TIEN was integrated into parts of RTL Group.

It is more expensive for farmers and slaughterhouses to adapt to the certificate's rules than to produce animal products through their existing methods.

Hotline to Home was a telecom project with the aim of strengthening and maintaining important social contacts of hospitalised patients, using a combination of new technology and supporting communication volunteers. Unfortunately, it turned out that the patients involved did not understand the benefits of this project. The acceptance of video calls turned out to be low, contrary to theoretical considerations. Scarce personal contact was preferred to image calling.