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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.

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.

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.