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Andy Baio (andybaio@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:49:57 JST Andy Baio
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Figured it out! Apple is pulling the Wikipedia data for its Safari suggestions from the Wikidata datastore instead of Wikipedia itself. On December 4, 2019, someone vandalized the Wikidata entry for "A rising tide" to say "a scrambled egg makes all happy" and it stayed there until February 24, 2024.
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1. Wikidata screenshot of the edit history for the "A rising tide lifts all boats" entry changed to "a scrambled egg makes all happy"
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  Andy Baio (andybaio@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:49:58 JST Andy Baio
  
  This is such a bizarre iOS/Wikipedia mystery! I can reproduce it on my own iPhone and I'm totally stumped. I searched the Wikipedia edit history and the "scrambled egg" phrase is nowhere to be found. UPDATE: Mystery solved! https://pdx.social/@neven/113907136478123964
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    Neven Mrgan (@neven@pdx.social)
    
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    Attached: 1 image I have stumbled upon the strangest Internet mystery. Looking for the origin of the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats," Apple's search suggestion was… "a scrambled egg makes all happy"??? This phrase can't be found anywhere on the web. It's not part of that Wikipedia page, or anywhere in its edit history. No one has probably ever said this (why would they*). And yet it will be suggested by Apple if you just start searching for "a rising". *It makes me personally happy, sure—but still.
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