Ernest Hemingway

He was a failed Spy

Took a urinal home from his favorite bar and moved it into his home, arguing that he had “pissed away” so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it.

He liked to go fishing.

Survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, skin cancer, hepatitis, diabetes, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.

Killed himself with his favorite shotgun.

Was charged with war crimes under the Geneva Convention when he took command and led of a group of French militia into battle against the Nazis.

Hemingway’s brother founded a nation off the coast of Jamaica that consisted of a raft and 7 citizens.

Ernest Hemingway lookalike society holds yearly contests.

Nobel Prize winner.

Hemingway and Hadley divorced, due in part to his affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer.

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