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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.

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.

While testing a drug for heart failure, it turned out that the drug did not work against it. Pfizer found out that the drug had another side effect: it produced renewed potency and erections in men. Pfizer changed its strategy and tested the pills as an erection pill, with great success, because since then they have been sold on a large scale worldwide.

The project has given NOTS the idea to develop the NOTS Microcredit Bonds. The money NOTS earns from these bonds is used to provide study grants to underprivileged children in developing countries.