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• The Housefly Effect: A brand new book on Behavioural Scienece was released yesterday by B.R.A.I.N Creatives founder Tim den Heijer, and Behavioural Insights Nederland founder Eva van den Broek. Watch our podcast with them here, or listen to it here.
   
• When a 17-year old took on Microsoft in a legal battle: A humble twelfth-grader in Canada started a website design business called MikeRoweSoft.com. After a legal kerfuffle with Microsoft, he sold the domain to them for an X-box and a trip to HQ.
   
• What's having an AI girlfriend like? Believe it or not, AI girlfriends are one of the fastest growing applications of AI. This article is written by a 26-year-old reporter who went through the motions. Prof G thinks it's bad idea, what do you think? 
   
• When you can't afford the Olympics, sell coffee: In 1932, One of the world's largest countries couldn't afford to send a team to the Olympics, so they did what they do best.
   
• Dan Ariely's unique take on Work/Life balance: Is going on a walk a work activity or a life activity? Dan thinks it's both. 

• 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope on his way to becoming the first European to reach India by sea. 🌍
   
• 1903 - Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt announce their engagement. 💍
   
• 1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs, revolutionising the game of golf. ⛳
   
• 1955 - RCA Records makes its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract. 🎤
   
• 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas. 🇺🇸
   
• 1965 - "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees" is broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million viewers, bringing Jane Goodall to international attention. 🐒
   
• 1967 - Mel Brooks' first film, The Producers, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, has a disastrous premiere and is almost shelved, but later wins an Oscar and achieves cult status. 🎬
   
• 1989 - A rare conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and the Moon occurs. 🌌
   
• 1995 - Toy Story, the first feature-length film created entirely with computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released. 🧸