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TIL about the Tiger Mask donation phenomenon in Japan. It began in 2010 when someone left ten school backpacks at a child center, signed "Naoto Date" after a manga wrestler raised in an orphanage. Since then, copycats have donated toys, food, and money to children's facilities across Japan.

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