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Most people have no idea of the size of a moose. It is the largest living deer, about 2.3 m high. The earliest moose-like animals are thought to have appeared around 2.5 million years ago, during the late Pliocene period. https://t.co/93jUMkKS5S https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790907206541410305/pu/vid/avc1/958x476/GkhGHd0va6UC7AS2.mp4?tag=12

In 'Men in Black' (1997), the language these aliens speak together is 'Huttese', which is what Jabba the Hutt speaks in Star Wars https://t.co/wG9kjEOY8h https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790905210874843136/pu/vid/avc1/1080x576/R6k1VZt4OPgEbj75.mp4?tag=12

DMX's stage presence was never more apparent than in what has perhaps become his most famous live performance, which took place in front of over 200,000 screaming fans at Woodstock 25 years ago. https://t.co/SswYOq4EV1 https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790658255254859776/pu/vid/avc1/710x526/ARovizlAkzr2lAN9.mp4?tag=12

The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled at Buckingham Palace. https://t.co/XLBMg1WxgE https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790657833010081792/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/Wg1JjRN8hUMaYajx.mp4?tag=12

A Confederate soldier at the Battle of Gettysburg seeing a Chinese guy in a Union uniform shooting at him in the distance https://t.co/JtdUrqKNbQ https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790657274987290624/pu/vid/avc1/952x590/8GqFVheXlFVr20Cj.mp4?tag=12

For nearly 20 years, from 1955 to the mid-'70s, the American military was thrust into the jungles of Vietnam. The war took an emotional toll on American troops that, in many ways, outweighed the physical strains of battle, and soldiers coped through drug use, primarily heroin. Not only did it blur the hell around them to a manageable haze, it was something to do that didn't involve death and destruction, at least not initially. Many of the men who returned home were hooked for life, unable to cope with the world around them without a veneer of smack.

There was no shortage of mind-altering substances in Vietnam during the war. Soldiers were plied with more booze than they could drink, and thanks to the lax drug laws in Vietnam, marijuana wasn't hard to get, either. Studies show that more than 50% of soldiers smoked marijuana and an additional 28% of them were using heroin. With a little more than nine million soldiers serving during the war, that's just under two million soldiers using one of the most addictive drugs known to man. Those numbers are just estimates, but they show how widespread illicit drug use was throughout the military during one of the worst conflicts in U.S. history.

Ironically, many soldiers started using heroin because of the crackdown on less harmful drugs. As drug use increased across the board in Vietnam, the country's laws became stricter, and the U.S. military came down harshly on their soldiers.

The Green Machine by Marx was introduced in 1975, marketed towards older kids who had outgrown the Big Wheel https://t.co/v44FB6aLFU https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790444584666849281/pu/vid/avc1/718x512/4-31TZ55jIDt5r_0.mp4?tag=12

The Nickelodeon time capsule buried by the network in 1992 was removed in August 2006 and reburied at the Nickelodeon Suites Resort. Upon the hotel's closure in 2016, it was reburied at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio and is set to be opened on April 30, 2042. https://t.co/r5D9kzaV4T https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1790443451659485187/pu/vid/avc1/576x412/8Mchx1JieWWEryWc.mp4?tag=12