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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.

Ford wilde naast de bestaande submerken Mercury en Lincoln een nieuw submerk oprichten: Ford Edsel. Na grondig marktonderzoek en een grote campagne werden zeven modellen middenklasse-auto’s op de markt gebracht. Helaas werden er maar weinig auto’s van Edsel verkocht. Het publiek vond de auto’s niet mooi en duurzaam genoeg en er zaten productiefouten in. Ook had Edsel niet genoeg loyaliteit van klanten.

The PlayStation game Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be a mega popular game. Eight years were spent working on it and investing heavily in it. The goal was to launch the game before Christmas 2020 at the same time as the PlayStation 5. There was a lot of pressure on this and even though the game was not quite ready, it was launched. As a result, there were a lot of errors in the game and the game could no longer be sold.

Russian researchers wanted to study the flight routes of eagles, with the aim of increasing the chances of survival of this endangered species. One of the eagles decided to take a tourist route across the steppe - one of the few places in the world without GPS coverage - and reappeared in Iran: a country with a high SMS rate. This left the researchers with no money to follow the other eagles. Fortunately, donors and the provider came to their rescue.