Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Tiger's eye is a gift shop classic, so you'd think we've known all there is to understand about it for a while. But this mineral got stuck with some inaccurate PR back in the 1800s that took nearly 200 years for researchers to undo. And it all hinges on asbestos.

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