Before May Fourth, it was a big event, and there was a towel festival.

In 2001, after the death of Renaissance creative figure Douglas Adams (Douglas Adams), fans announced that May 25th was to commemorate his Towel Day, and decided that it would be like the master’s beloved "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" The role is the same in every avatar, everyone should know that this most useful tool has always been.

The towel legend appeared in the 1978 "Hitchhiking" radio drama (for which Adam wrote the script), and was expanded in the book of the same name, touted as "the most useful item an interstellar traveler can have." Moreover, in fact, this rectangular cloth has many uses and is very practical. It can even convince laymen that the bearer is fully prepared for anything that may happen, and they will be happy to lend them free riders. Anything that you forget, including hobos (non-hitchhikers) want them in the presence of towels (remember, Adams' career began with writing for the python's flying circus).

How did the whole legend of the towel come about? Mental Floss: The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists has an origin story (there are many other funny and weird literary tidbits-the discord of famous writers, anyone?):

So, does the guide specify which towel is best for your interstellar journey? It doesn’t, as far as I know (full disclosure is not that far off these days, although my husband and I have confirmed fact checking) screen adaptations usually feature a normal bath towel, this...look, all of my Meaning, if I were to take a spaceship with a frustrated robot and a group of weird people who might be trapped listening to Vogon's poems, I might want something more inspiring. A little more... Maybe it's literature?

For those interested in the small and inconspicuous, a tea towel is the way, although this model may not keep you warm like the larger one, nor can it keep the marble sand of Santraginus V away from your butt crack. However, It’s pretty beautiful and reminds you of classic stories. You can tell your engrossed audience to pass the time between stopovers—or to distract yourself when you are inevitably captured or in suspended animation or other situations that require you to entertain. Attention when the world burns around you, yourself. Or when you are lying on the ground in front of the excavator and trying to knock down your house. It's so useful.

This is a comic book character. It has a hood. It will give you the ability to break the fourth wall and ask yourself how you got into this situation. Can you imagine what made of cotton gives you so many different powers? You will be unstoppable. Ish. Unstoppable. Don't be triumphant, boy. Sorry, what? Wrong franchise? Look, a good class is a good class. You don't know what's out there. I don't know what's out there. Even the guide doesn't know everything. No, you are responsible for updating. I put it on your list. Well, it's not my fault that you didn't check. We have obviously all been on this ship for too long.

Always good advice and correct source. In addition, if you have a towel, you never need it. A beach towel may be a bit awkward to drag, but it can cover all the basics: blankets, beach chairs, lower half sets, shirts, hats, invisible cloaks, and so on. This is a model with all options, and it is very meta, and pays tribute to its own source material. The master will agree. In addition, if he has a bright yellow towel with red stripes, he may not lose it in the first place. Even though that day will deprive us glorious nerds, on this day we can nod to each other while everyone else wants to know what we know they don’t know.

May 25th only appears once a year. perhaps. I don’t know, time is not linear, so it’s best to always know where your towel is. And your "Dental Floss: Curious Reader". Because it is definitely better than Vogon's poetry.