In the Cappadocia region of Turkey, the residents of the area's villages use a kind of rock rich in the mineral erionite to build their homes, says Not Exactly Rocket Science's Ed Yong. The villagers have also suffered with an "epidemic of mesothelioma" for years because of it.
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