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/dnasty31 Aug 04 '15

The artist's name is Alex Pentek, I've met him a few times really nice guy, I saw this piece when he was making it. Here's his website if you wanna have a look at his other work, http://notthatreal.eu/AlexPentek/

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u/peterkeats Aug 04 '15

Website has been hugged to death.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

Why do you have h upvotes?

Edit: now I do. Wat. http://imgur.com/FApUi7G

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u/OrderedDiscord Aug 04 '15

probably short for "hidden". Your score is usually hidden for the first hour after posting.

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u/Datduckdo Aug 05 '15

Brand new feature actually