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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always as

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this, friends is stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know. It's rain and frogs. Hello, do you Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of those during the search for this.

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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, during research for this, you've got it's

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Speaker 1: raining men references. Yeah, kept coming up and that predictive

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Speaker 1: search and really yeah. And then there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: um raining different things. Mouse pads out there available, yeah,

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Speaker 1: at e retailers like Etsy and Zazzle and stuff like that. Basically,

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Speaker 1: if you type something in Zezel will be like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um. And there's an adorable umbrella out there,

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Speaker 1: That's cute. Uh no, they're not and they're actually it

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Speaker 1: didn't show up there in this article. There's triplets holding them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: three times the adorable So um, Chuck, I ran into

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Speaker 1: a lot of um descriptions of crazy stuff happening over

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Speaker 1: the course of history here on planet Earth. Um, as

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Speaker 1: far back as I could see, there was a guy

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Speaker 1: named Athanas He lived in the fourth century BC, and

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Speaker 1: he was a traveler and writer. And he mentioned that

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Speaker 1: in the area that is now Dinar, Turkey, Uh, it

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Speaker 1: frequently rained fish and frogs frequently. And not only did

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Speaker 1: it frequently do it. Once it rained frogs for three

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Speaker 1: were just inundated with frogs. They poisoned the water. Um,

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Speaker 1: whenever they tried to cook. There was like frogs and

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Speaker 1: their frogs everywhere, and it was raining frogs. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: the ramblings of a fourth century BC Greek madman. Right, sure, okay,

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Speaker 1: that we'll say that. But what about Bergen, Norway in

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Speaker 1: fifteen seventy eight and fifteen seventy nine, when it rained

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Speaker 1: supposedly yellow mice and lemmings. It rained lemmings supposedly, Now

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Speaker 1: that's been widely discredited. But what about Memphis, Tennessee January

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Speaker 1: eighteen seventy seven It rained live snakes, some as big

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Speaker 1: as eighteen inches long. And this one was reported in

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Speaker 1: Scientific American. Yeah. Uh, Pliny the Elder, which is the

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Speaker 1: rains of flesh, blood and wool. Yeah, wool eighteen seventy three.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, Missouri, rain and frogs. Australia rain and fish yeah,

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Speaker 1: Acapulco night raining maggots you yeah, uh, tadpoles jellyfish and

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Speaker 1: Tasmania jellyfish. Yeah, that's scary, scary. The one of squid

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Speaker 1: single squid. Yeah. So while we're talking about all these

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Speaker 1: are documented cases of it raining, crazy crazy stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: rain blood before supposedly when really it was an algae um.

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Speaker 1: But it did in India and Russia, and the people

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Speaker 1: ever thanks to the blood rain. No weird. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: illogical conclusion. Even one of my personal heroes, Charles Fort,

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Speaker 1: irks me. Um, it's rained a bunch of crazy stuff

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Speaker 1: I finally saw there will be blood yesterday day before. Yester,

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Speaker 1: water spout forms. Okay, so you've got two kinds of

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Speaker 1: or it's raining fish, and fish supposedly are the most common. Um. Yeah,

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