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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.

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.

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.

The municipality of Boxtel wanted to use a survey to find out what its residents thought about the tasks and finances of the municipality in the future. The survey that was sent out was too long and complicated, which meant that there were far too few responses to give a representative picture. The municipality is now thinking of other solutions, such as entering into discussions with residents and companies and collecting ideas via, for example, a suggestion box.