Rewinding to Tuesday 21 September 1999…

Tuesday · Stockholm, Sweden

The world on 21 September 1999 in Stockholm.

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01The weather outside

A high of 19°C in Stockholm.

19°C/ 66°F high

Low of 12°C · 0.3 mm of precipitation · wind up to 14 km/h

The sun rose at 06:28 and set at 18:52 — 12h 24m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waxing gibbous watched over you.

85% lit · 11 days into its cycle

Looking up from Stockholm that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.

It was autumn in your half of the world.

The Moon was 389,756 km away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Unpretty”

by TLC — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Bailamos”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1999-09-21

ITEM1999TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.88$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.96$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.79$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.28$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.39$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$159,100$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

1,415 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

27 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Virgo.

Star sign

Virgo

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit

Earth Rabbit

Birthstone

Sapphire

for your month

Birth flower

Aster

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Tuesday

And so much more you’d never guess or remember.

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