Rewinding to Friday, July 24, 1998…

Friday · Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Cailee, you arrived on July 24, 1998 in Knoxville.

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01The weather outside

A high of 83°F in Knoxville.

83°F/ 29°C high

Low of 70°F · 0.33 in of precipitation · wind up to 3 mph

The sun rose at 6:36 am and set at 8:47 pm — 14h 10m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waxing crescent watched over you.

2% lit · 1.5 days into its cycle

Looking up from Knoxville that evening, you could have spotted Mercury without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 242,103 miles away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “The Boy Is Mine”

by Brandy & Monica — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks, taking over from “Too Close”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

KNOXVILLE · 1998-07-24

ITEM1998TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.87$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.97$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.63$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.08$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.77$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$153,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.32$0.78

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

1,476 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

28 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Friday's child, under Leo.

Star sign

Leo

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Tiger

Earth Tiger

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Friday

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