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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.

The aim of the COSMIC study is to determine the appropriate treatment in patients with central cord syndrome without evidence of spinal injury. To investigate this, a multi-centre randomised study was chosen. After one and a half years, only one patient was eligible for this study, whereas it was hoped that around twenty patients would be included.

Porsche was eager to bring a car to the American market in a low price range. In order to realize this plan, they collaborated with the company Studebaker. While working on a design, it proved difficult to find agreement and when the design was finished, Studebaker proved to have too many financial problems to continue with the plan. When production was again possible, the model was dated.

An analysis by the FD shows that large ICT projects by the Dutch government are still seriously overrunning: cost overruns amount to an average of 36% and the average overrun is 37%. The FD looked at 125 large projects for which the original budget was 2.5 billion euros and the expected costs have now risen to 3.5 billion.