Below, I talked about the Saudis donating 1013 tons of dates to the World Food Program in Yemen. This is a good thing- Yemen's food shortage is reaching a crisis point, and foreign governments are not doing enough to help, something that is morally and strategically unbelievable. My point in posting below, though, was because I was literally* gobsmacked at the enormous amount of dates.
Coincidentally, I was at the grocery store this afternoon and while in the produce section weighed out a pound of dates. It came to about 18 dates to a pound. I don't know if these were wholly representative of dates or not, but I'm going to assume they were. I'm just going to be American-centric and assume it is a short ton. So, 18 times 2000 times 1013 = 36,468,000 dates (margin of error: 4 dates).
To put that in perspective, that is just an enormous amount of dates.
*Not literally
(EDIT: First sentence originally said "pounds" instead of "tons". Thanks to comment below for catching that.)
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