In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent. https://share.google/ePM21R48Aq0VRqTUb
non-google link: https://spacedaily.com/k-in-1973-a-reportedly-drunk-driver-flattened-a-tree-in-the-middle-of-the-sahara-which-sounds-unremarkable-until-you-learn-it-was-the-only-tree-for-250-miles-around-a-300-year-old-acacia-so-isolated-i/