1. “A towel... is
about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can
have.” (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).
2. Towel Day was first observed on May 25, 2001, two weeks after Adams’ death at the age of 49.
3. The word towel occurs twice in the King James Bible, both in chapter 13 of the Gospel According to John.
4. Shakespeare’s plays never mention a towel. In 1836, Dickens was the first to use towel as a verb.
5.
The phrase “throw in the towel” for resigning a boxing match was first
recorded in 1915. Before that it was “throw up the sponge”,
The phrase “throw in the towel” for resigning a boxing match was first recorded in 1915
6. Paper towels were invented by Arthur Scott of Philadelphia in 1907.
7. The first paper towels were intended for school classrooms to stop the spread of the common cold.
8. Paper towels for kitchen use followed in 1931.
9.
Bath towels were traditionally invented in the city of Bursa, now in
Turkey, which was the capital of the Ottoman State in the 14th-century.
10. “What is life without a towel?” (Mary Henrietta Kingsley: Travels in West Africa, 1897)
