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TIL that a group of Geoducks, the largest burrowing clam in the world, is called a "bag". The name Geoduck was derived from an indigenous word meaning "genitals", or a phrase meaning "dig deep", or perhaps both, as a double-entendre. So a group of Geoducks is literally a "bag of dicks"

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