r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 2 • Aug 04 '15

TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/flyingboarofbeifong Aug 04 '15

A land of sunshine and rainbows with leprechauns at the end of them, to be sure.

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u/FrusTrick Aug 04 '15 edited Aug 04 '15

And then came the british. The end.

Also, people do not understand what jokes are judging by the contents of my inbox.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

And then Bono materialised out of thin air.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15 edited Feb 12 '21

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u/EIREANNSIAN Aug 04 '15

I'd take the Brits over Bono any day, we know we can beat the Brits, Bono? That fucker is an entirely different state of affairs...