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name: Arthur Dent
origin: Earth
species: Human
source: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Dent
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**Arthur Dent** is a friendly but simple-minded human from Earth who escaped his planet's destruction and travelled the universe with his best friend, **Ford Prefect**. He spent several years being helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle.
