Rewinding to Wednesday 24 May 2000…

Wednesday · Binningen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

The world on 24 May 2000 in Binningen.

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01The weather outside

A high of 21°C in Binningen.

21°C/ 70°F high

Low of 8°C · dry · wind up to 13 km/h

The sun rose at 05:42 and set at 21:11 — 15h 29m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

66% lit · 20.6 days into its cycle

Looking up from Binningen that evening, you could have spotted Mercury and Mars without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 401,802 km away — farther than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Maria Maria”

by Santana Featuring The Product G&B — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks, taking over from “Say My Name”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

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PRICES IN THE U.S. · 2000-05-24

ITEM2000TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.92$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.85$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.78$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.50$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.53$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$163,200$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.33$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.0× 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

1,380 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

26 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Wednesday's child, under Gemini.

Star sign

Gemini

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

Dragon

Metal Dragon

Birthstone

Emerald

for your month

Birth flower

Lily of the valley

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Wednesday

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