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What country invented Chinese fortune cookies?

For dessert, Chinese restaurants in the United States and many other countries serve fortune cookies - slips of paper inside containing wise phrases in Chinese with translation or numbers, which many then transfer to lottery tickets. However, in China itself, these cookies are practically unknown, and the Chinese have nothing to do with their origin.

The prototype of these sweets originated in the 19th century in Japanese temples, and it was Japanese immigrants who adapted the cookies for the American market. According to one version, it began to be strongly associated with China when, during the Second World War, Japanese-Americans moved en masse to concentration camps, and the Chinese picked up the production of cookies.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Usually, within one state, the mains voltage has a strictly defined frequency - either 50 Hz or 60 Hz. And in Japan there are two systems - in the western part the frequency is 60 Hz, in the eastern part - 50 Hz, and there are four frequency converters between them. This state of affairs arose due to the fact that generators from the German company AEG were purchased for the Tokyo power system in 1895, and for Osaka a year later, American generators from General Electric were purchased. Since then, each of these networks has developed according to its own standards, and it turned out to be too costly to unify.

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