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in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn s campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.

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Fun Fact: in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn’s campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.

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