As far as I know this magical number comes from Japan as in 1965 they released a pedometer labeled Manpo-kei which supposedly means "10,000 steps meter"... Fr

As far as I know this magical number comes from Japan as in 1965 they released a pedometer labeled Manpo-kei which supposedly means "10,000 steps meter"... From the last link: “It turns out the original basis for this 10,000-step guideline was really a marketing strategy,” she explains. “In 1965, a Japanese company was selling pedometers, and they gave it a name that, in Japanese, means ‘the 10,000-step meter.’” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedometer#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedometer#History https://www.news-medical.net/health/Where-did-10000-steps-a-day-come-from.aspx https://www.news-medical.net/health/Where-did-10000-steps-a-... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-steps-rule/590785/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-ste...