Rewinding to Thursday 3 April 1997…
Thursday · São Paulo, Brazil
Gabriel, you arrived on 3 April 1997 in São Paulo.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 25°C in São Paulo.
25°C/ 77°F high
Low of 16°C · 0.4 mm of precipitation · wind up to 21 km/h
The sun rose at 06:15 and set at 18:03 — 11h 48m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
16% lit · 25.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from São Paulo that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 363,626 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”
by Puff Daddy (Featuring Mase) — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Wannabe”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-04-03
BREAD COSTS 2.1× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
1,544 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Thursday
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