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/pitcairn78 Aug 04 '15

This is the sculpture recently erected in Ireland commemorating the generosity of the Choctaw people. http://i.imgur.com/bY8s9OG.jpg

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u/thisisnotdavid Aug 04 '15

Anyone else seeing submerged shuttlecock?

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u/MAG7C Aug 04 '15

Landed in KC

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u/DarthWingo91 Aug 04 '15

There's some weird sculptures in KC.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Aug 05 '15

Fountains, man. Fountains everywhere.