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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.

To lure tourists, the Chinese village of Xianfeng wanted to get monkeys to the village. When the monkeys came, it all seemed to go well. However, the project got completely out of hand when the investor died. There were no more financial resources to manage the plan and maintain the monkeys.

Before Linie Aquavit gets sold it has a long boat journey from Norway to Australia and back. This all started by accident in the 1800s. An export attempt failed and got sent back which resulted in a richer flavor.

Ford wilde naast de bestaande submerken Mercury en Lincoln een nieuw submerk oprichten: Ford Edsel. Na grondig marktonderzoek en een grote campagne werden zeven modellen middenklasse-auto’s op de markt gebracht. Helaas werden er maar weinig auto’s van Edsel verkocht. Het publiek vond de auto’s niet mooi en duurzaam genoeg en er zaten productiefouten in. Ook had Edsel niet genoeg loyaliteit van klanten.