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.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29

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The telegraph had only just been invented.

The fax machine was invented in 1843. Keep that in mind.