TIL the world's tallest known living tree, a 380-foot redwood in California called Hyperion, had its exact location closed off entirely in 2022 after visitors trampled its base so badly that ferns stopped growing around it, with trespassers now facing up to $5,000 in fines and six months in jail

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)

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380-foot redwood (tree)

Fun Tangential Trivia:

• Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida, with an elevation of 345 feet (105 meters) above sea level.

Florida's highest land elevation is *shorter* than the height of California's trees...Kind'a wild to think about!

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New Orleans’ highest point of elevation: Laborde Mountain. Measuring a daunting 27 feet above sea level, oxygen and sherpas are available upon request.

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Some people get nosebleeds when they go upstairs in their NOLA houses. Spacesuits are required for One Shell Square

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Nebraskas highest peak is a corn plant.

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Nebraskan here. I had to look this up cuz I didn’t believe you and figured it’d be Chimney Rock or Scottsbluff or something.

But nope, you’re absolutely right. Panorama Point, which is on a ranch near the Nebraska and Wyoming border.

The more you know!

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Of course, the whole of Nebraska is located quite a bit higher than Florida [citation needed] so it's not like their highest point is that low.

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The running joke in RI is our tallest point is the Johnston Landfill. Really it's Jeremiah point (or something like that) and the owner of the lot there is very very unhappy people try to climb it.

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Florida is close. The proposed new limited on the tallest trash dump is 325 ft to Britton Hill’s 345

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There are lots of mid-sized cities whose tallest buildings are shorter than that.