Rewinding to Sunday 15 February 1998…

Sunday · Kings Lynn, England, United Kingdom

George, you arrived on 15 February 1998 in Kings Lynn.

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01The weather outside

A high of 11°C in Kings Lynn.

11°C/ 52°F high

Low of 7°C · dry · wind up to 21 mph

The sun rose at 07:15 and set at 17:10 — 9h 54m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

83% lit · 18.8 days into its cycle

Looking up from Kings Lynn that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.

It was winter in your half of the world.

The Moon was 251,935 miles away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Nice & Slow”

by Usher — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Together Again”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1998-02-15

ITEM1998TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.51£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.60£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.41£0.57Kilo of potatoesnew, loose£0.77£1.58Kilo of bananas1 kg£1.07£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.67£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£2.25£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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

1,499 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

28 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Aquarius.

Star sign

Aquarius

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

Tiger

Earth Tiger

Birthstone

Amethyst

for your month

Birth flower

Violet

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Sunday

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