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TIL of Thimmamma Marrimanu a 550 year old banyan tree in India with a canopy of 4.721 acres

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b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.
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