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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.

The Mars Climate Orbiter was to carry out research on Mars. Two different teams were working on the mission. Due to a miscommunication about which numerical unit was used, contact with the spacecraft was severed and never recovered.

In 1899, a skeleton of a Diplodocus was found during an expedition by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. From this skeleton Carnegie had eighteen casts made and donated them to world leaders. In this way he wanted to ensure world peace. The casts were gratefully accepted and exhibited by the world leaders. Unfortunately, the heads of state saw the "Dippy" as their own dinosaur and not much later World War I broke out.

Patients and healthcare professionals experience a lack of information about medication when visiting the hospital. The tablet app was intended to ensure that both patients and healthcare professionals were better informed about medication. In the end, a number of problems stood in the way of further development: there was a lack of focus, there were many exploratory meetings with parties from the business world and it proved difficult to reach agreement on a concrete plan of action.