Earlier this month, a colleague discovered, thanks to a tip from a Facebook friend, that if you type “Can you eat a … ” into Google, the search engine offers the helpful suggestion that you complete that query with “flamingo.” At the time of publication, this still holds true across platforms. This got us wondering: Can you eat a flamingo? And why on Earth does Google think so many people would want to know?
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