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TIL that a Lousiana term for a kind of fish called a crappie is "sacalait", coming from a French term literally meaning "bag of milk". This isn't because crappies have anything to do with milk, but because the Choctaw word "sakli" got turned into "sac-à-lait" in Cajun French.

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