Rewinding to Friday 2 November 2001…

Friday · Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador

The world on 2 November 2001 in Santo Domingo de los Colorados.

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01The weather outside

A high of 31°C in Santo Domingo de los Colorados.

31°C/ 88°F high

Low of 19°C · dry · wind up to 19 km/h

The sun rose at 05:56 and set at 18:03 — 12h 7m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

96% lit · 16.6 days into its cycle

Looking up from Santo Domingo de los Colorados that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.

It was spring in your half of the world.

The Moon was 386,606 km away, right about average.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “I'm Real”

by Jennifer Lopez Featuring Ja Rule — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Fallin'”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 2001-11-02

ITEM2001TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$1.01$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.94$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.89$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.26$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.99$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$171,100$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.34$0.78

BREAD COSTS 1.8× 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

1,305 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

25 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Friday's child, under Scorpio.

Star sign

Scorpio

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

Snake

Metal Snake

Birthstone

Topaz

for your month

Birth flower

Chrysanthemum

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Friday

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