101 Gold listeners know Udell from his weekly visits to the station every Monday morning to talk about City business. In fact, this past Monday he never mentioned a word about his Power Ball windfall when he stopped by our studios. He must have been bursting at the seems. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Way to go Udell!
It’s National Coffee Day.
The world record for coffee consumption is 82 cups…in seven hours!!
-We don’t know who…but we’re guessing he (or she) was in radio.
Drinking one cup of coffee puts certain antioxidants in your body that will stay in your system for up to a month. It’s no wonder the world drinks 1.4-billion cups of coffee a day.
And yet…Juan Valdez can only afford a donkey.
Something doesn’t add up here.
1916 John D. Rockefeller becomes the first American billionaire.
Music History 101: At his 41st birthday party, a drunk Jerry Lee Lewis attempts to shoot a soda bottle with his .357 Magnum but instead he hits his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest on September 29, 1976. But fortunately, Owens recovered from the accident.
The 101 number one song of the day was the result of one word scribbled on a piece of paper by a former member of a polka band who later played coffee houses with Frank Zappa.
His name was Terry Kirkman who wound up selling business forms in Hawaii where he met up with a sailor named Gary Alexander. Eventually they returned to the mainland and formed a 13 member group called “The Men.” Unfortunately, the men didn’t get along all that well and after an argument, seven walked out. They were left to think of a new name and considered “The Aristocrats.” Kirkland’s wife Judy wanted to get a precise definition of the word and when going through the dictionary came across a word in close alphabetical proximity which they liked better. Another word that Terry had written on a piece of paper led to their first number one song. Three weeks he completed the song which on September 29, 1966 led all other in America for the group now known as “The Association” and that word was: Cherish…
Get a load of this - Nissan is working with scientists in Switzerland to come up with a car that can read its driver’s mind. Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL) have teamed up to work on mind-reading vehicle technology. Truly hands-free driving may not be too far off. Thought control via brain machine interface isn't a new idea--EPFL researchers are already working on mind-reading wheelchair systems. But the concentration levels required to control thought-reading systems is extremely high, which is why EPFL and Nissan are working on a device that uses statistical analysis to predict a driver's next move.
That would be a little embarrassing during the test drive…and it keeps turning into McDonalds.
And while we’re on the subject of innovation, we come to the subject of today’s 101 Gold Nugget of Knowledge
A design team in Sydney, Australia designed a couch that sped down an airport runway reaching a speed of 101 miles an hour. They say that’s the new world record for the world’s fastest couch.
you can watch the video on Mike McKay’s facebook page.
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