Meet Hyperion, the World’s Tallest Tree
January 15, 2016
Up until August 2006, the tallest known tree in the world was a 369-foot California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) nicknamed ‘Stratosphere Giant’, located somewhere in the Humboldt
Up until August 2006, the tallest known tree in the world was a 369-foot California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) nicknamed ‘Stratosphere Giant’, located somewhere in the Humboldt
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Despite the region’s sub-zero winters, a Ukrainian man from Kiev has been walking around barefoot since February 2006. Andrzej Novosiolov apparently began the bizarre practice on a
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