Towel Day

Towel Day facts

• Douglas Adams launched an online version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide in 1999. It was taken over by the BBC and continues to run.
• Douglas Adams received a £1,500 advance for the first Hitchhiker’s book. His advance for the fourth book in the series, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, was over £600,000.
• Douglas Adams owned one of the first Macintosh computers in the UK and used it extensively for his writing.
• A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat… - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Top things to do in the US for Towel Day

• Remember to bring your towel with you, it's the most important item a hitchhiker can carry.
• See how much you know about the film in this Hitchhiker's Guide trivia quiz.
• Watch a video that celebrates Towel Day.

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