In Norway, Worms Rain from the Sky
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iStock/Thinkstock(BERGEN, Norway) — Scientists and residents in Norway were stunned by an odd bit of precipitation recently: worms.
A biology teacher named Karstein Erstad was skiing when he found the snowy mountainside in Bergen covered in the creepy crawlies, according to The Local. Similar reports were made throughout the country, as far as the country’s border with Sweden.
Erstad explained a weather pattern could have lifted the worms up in the air and scattered them miles away; he found similar reports dating back to 1920.
“It’s a very rare phenomenon,” the scientist explained. “It’s difficult to say how many times it happens, but it has only been reported a very few times.”
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