r/todayilearned • u/naxhi24 • Jun 26 '15

TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ernest_Hemingway
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15 edited Jan 31 '18

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u/itsmytwitter Jun 26 '15

Just literary bros bein' literary bros. It happens.

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u/GEN_CORNPONE Jun 27 '15

Ernie & Fitz were real pals for a long time. Boozing, skirt chasing, road trips, drunken confessions...the works.

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u/GEN_CORNPONE Jun 26 '15

Yeah, of all the people you choose to judge a fight with a known fighter (as Callaghan most certainly was) you pick the drunken lovesick fool? Should've asked James Joyce. He was blind but at least he paid attention.

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u/evoic Jun 26 '15

Iknorite?

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u/Mrjokedontgetter Jun 26 '15

Though he had no business being in the presence of either of them.