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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.

Lovers wanted to operate a hydrogen-powered canal boat on the Amsterdam canals. The development of the boat cost more than 2 million, but unfortunately the boat does not sail. It proved difficult to get a hydrogen filling station installed, the municipality of Amsterdam became more and more enthusiastic about electric vehicles instead of hydrogen-powered ones, and on top of that a new law was introduced whereby the boat no longer met the length requirements.

In the 1960s, the municipality of Amsterdam came up with an ambitious plan to create a new residential area in the Bijlmermeer with a strict division between living and working. Attracting residents was difficult because of the bad reputation that the Bijlmer acquired, the lack of facilities in the area and the competition from single-family dwellings elsewhere in the region, which kept Amsterdam families away.

Hurtigruten and other cruise companies suffered great losses during Corona when there were no passengers and they were lying idle on the water. When there were fewer infections in early July and new and stricter measures were introduced, Hurtigruten decided to be the first to start cruises again. This did not go according to plan, there were 16 crew members who had not followed the rules properly, with the result that several people on the ship became infected.