The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - 0 views
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The tallest of the tall is 379 feet 4 inches, 10 feet taller than the Giant. It's now called
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"Hyperion
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"its mass is equivalent to 15 adult blue whales, the largest animal on earth. Each year, this tree produces enough new wood to make a 90-foot-tall tree with a trunk 12 inches in diameter. If all of Del Norte Titan were cut into boards one foot wide, 12 feet long and one inch thick, the line of planks laid end to end would stretch over a hundred miles and could build 120 average-sized houses."
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