UUIDs

Anyone know why there are '-' characters in UUIDs at the particular positions
that they exist in? It seems the UUID is stored internally in resources like
filesystems without the '-' characters. Yet they serve no apparent value in
helping humans remember so many hexadecimal digits. Why even have them at
all? But really, why in the positions they are in?

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