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.
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A cartographer's paradox: the one tree so alone it warranted a spot on continental maps, until a drunk driver erased three centuries of solitude in a single night.
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