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"Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time"

Octopus can lay up to as many as 200, 000 eggs. The giant Pacific octopus will lay 20,00–100,000 eggs, each about the size of a grain of rice. That's a broad range, and your number would fit in there. Yes, octopus could lay that many eggs, but there's absolutely no correlation with the specific number '56,000'.

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