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You may have believed that the fortune cookie has a history that goes back hundreds of years and was born in China, but neither of those assumptions are true. In fact, the fortune cookie was actually created in the United States by a Japanese immigrant. According to the Smithsonian Institute,

When you see a fortune cookie, it’s not the cookie you’re craving, it’s the fortune. I mean, there are plenty of baked desserts but how many of them can reveal your future? Or the lack of it? Some of these messages, however, are so surprising, they catch people completely off-guard. Bored Panda has