"In 1965, a Japanese company was selling pedometers, and the Japanese character for 10,000 just so happens to look a bit like a person walking. So the company sold their pedometer as the 10,000 step meter, and that number kind of stuck"
"if you're older, if you're over, say, 65 is getting between 6,000 and 8,000 steps a day is more than enough to result in real health outcomes" #TIL!
Thanks to the #NPR Short Wave #Science#Podcast https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1173957356