Rewinding to Sunday 7 February 1999…

Sunday · Cairo, Egypt

Omar, you arrived on 7 February 1999 in Cairo.

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01The weather outside

A high of 16°C in Cairo.

16°C/ 60°F high

Low of 9°C · 0.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 35 km/h

The sun rose at 6:41 am and set at 5:36 pm — 10h 55m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A last quarter watched over you.

57% lit · 21.5 days into its cycle

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

It was winter in your half of the world.

The Moon was 404,155 km away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “...Baby One More Time”

by Britney Spears — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Have You Ever?”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1999-02-07

ITEM1999TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.88$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$1.08$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$3.00$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$0.95$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.43$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$157,400$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.33$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

1,448 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

27 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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