→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: The Story Behind the Legend (of Zelda) http://bit.ly/1RTQ08P Why Toilet Paper is White http://bit.ly/1SE87uL Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: The commonly held notion that Fortune Cookies were invented in China typically comes from the fact that they are primarily served in Americanized Chinese restaurants. However, you will not find fortune cookies in actual Chinese restaurants, nor will you find historical records of a similar food item in China. The largest manufacturer of fortune cookies, Wonton Food, based in New York, even once tried to introduce fortune cookies to the Chinese in the late 1980s. After three years, they gave up, as they simply weren’t a popular food item there. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/fortune-cookies-were-invented-in-japan-not-china/ Resources/Further Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#axzz0yYTnGvdFhttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#axzz0yYTnGvdF http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html?_r=1 http://www.fortunecookiemachine.com/about-sci-tech.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_sueyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/obituaries/edward-louie-is-dead-cookie-pioneer-was-69.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Theater_of_Operations Image Credit (Thank you) http://media.discovernikkei.org/articles/2439/Yasuko%20Nakamachi.jpg http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tsujiura-senbei.jpg http://postalmuseum.si.edu/pacificexchange/images/ppc_0114a.jpg https://www.med-dept.c