It's one of those perennial news stories that drops back into the papers every few years.

Somewhere on Earth, people report a storm of either fish or frogs falling out of the sky,

and the news is always ready with an answer they believe sounds sciency, water spouts.

Well it turns out that no water spouts have nothing to do with this age old phenomenon.

Training frogs and fish is coming up right now, unskeptoid.

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It's raining, frogs, and fish.

Today we're going to run in panic from a meteorological downpour only Bartholomew and

his ublech could appreciate.

Storms of frogs and fish falling from the sky.

For at least 200 years, newspapers and books have published accounts of people being pelted

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