It’s a little known fact that there is exactly one fish that is in charge of the weather worldwide. It’s true! Whatever that fish feels is reflected in the weather patterns, and the stranger the occurrences in that fish’s life, the stranger the weather. Normal depredations of marine life may cause things like floods, droughts, or even the odd tornado. But there have been much, much stranger occurrences.

Take, for example, the time that the fish was a tilapia that was caught by an angler using a cheese-based bait, posed for a photo, and then thrown back. That caused a rain of jellyfish in one area and a crimson tide in another. Then, of course, there was the time that the fish, a blue tang, was caught by a poacher and lived out the rest of its life in a salt water aquarium? That caused a tornado outbreak, an El Niño, abnormally high Arctic pack ice, and the eruption of four volcanoes.

The moral of the story? Be nice to fish. You never know which one controls the weather.

Oh, and if the fish dies? You don’t want to know. Trust me on this one.