"It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big e

"It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk." source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reborn-the-giant-tree-felled-as-a-result-of-a-bar-room-wager-10126496.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reborn-the-g...