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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.

Until five years ago, Blauwestad was considered a failed project. The idea was to turn an area of farmland into a lake with villas where wealthy Randstadites would buy a house. It was difficult to convince the farmers to sell their land and, due to the economic crisis in 2008, few houses were sold. It all seemed to come to nothing, but in recent years a huge number of houses were suddenly purchased in Blauwestad.

Guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick Gold had everything arranged for the recording of African-Caribbean fusion with their band. Unfortunately, the Malian musicians who were to join the company lost their passports when they applied for their visas. Rather than face the prospect, new musicians were found for the recordings and the album became a huge success.

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.