Swimming pool at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, Key West, Florida, USA

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Reportedly at wife Pauline's insistence, author Ernest Hemingway built Key West's first swimming pool behind his home at 907 Whitehead Street in the late 1930s. It cost $20,000 and Hemingway set a penny in the wet cement upon completion, stating, "Here, take the last penny I've got." Key West, Florida, USA

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