💡

Rob McKuen, who was once the most successful poet in American history, having sold 60 million books and 100 million records, is now largely forgotten.

Feb 8, 2023•1 min read

Fun Fact:

Source

slate.com

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on X Discover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

the Mona Lisa holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962 (equivalent to $870 million in 2021). It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797

Read →

Jackie Gleason, the creator and actor of The Honeymooners, was also a successful musician and conductor. His debut album, Music for Lovers Only, is still the longest-running album on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums all sold over a million copies each.

Read →

Waggoner Ranch, a 525,000 acre, 800 square mile ranch in North Texas, went up for sale for $725 million and sold for an undisclosed amount to billionaire Stan Kroenke in 2016, making it the largest sale amount ever offered for an American ranch.

Read →

During the 1960s American banks mass mailed 100 million unsolicited credit cards to customers including unemployable people, drug addicts and compulsive debtors. This practice was outlawed in 1970 due to the financial chaos it caused.

Read →

about the Great Attractor which it was previously thought the Milky Way was moving towards at 1,342,162 mph, but now the Great Atractor AND the Milky Way are both moving towards Shapely Supercluster. Observation of these areas is blocked by the Milky Way for the next 100 million years.

Read →

Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish upto 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell , apart from having the regular RBG cone cells

Read →

Explore All Fun Facts