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Five Fun Facts about Scallops

A single scallop can have up to 200 eyes.
Scallops are free-moving and they can swim by rapidly clapping their two shells together.
Scallops are mollusks known as bivalves, characterized by two hinged shells.
Scallops are filter feeders. Water enters a scallop's shell, and plankton gets trapped in mucus and ferried into its mouth by cilia.
Some scallops are female, some are male, and some are both.

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