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Moldavite crystals are literally just shattered space glass

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People pay an absolute fortune to wear ancient alien debris. The highly prized green crystal is literally just glass formed by a meteorite violently slamming into the Earth 15 million years ago, cooking dirt into shiny rocks.

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Moldavite crystals are literally just shattered space glass
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