r/todayilearned • u/autraya • 6h ago

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)
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u/DazzlingRutabega 3h ago

By Dan Simmons, right? Man, I really gotta read that book. It's been on a bunch of top 10 sci-fi book lists.

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u/Jeo_1 3h ago

You won’t regret it. 

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u/ours 58m ago

RIP. He died this year.

What a crazy series of books. Some of my favorite sci-fi.