Five Random Facts for Wednesday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  “The Wizard of Oz” is 102 minutes long, but Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was only on-screen for 12 minutes.

2.  Microsoft put “Solitaire” and “Minesweeper” in early versions of Windows to teach people how to use the mouse and click.

3.  Grocery stores sell a total of $5.5 billion worth of “impulse buy” items in the checkout line every single year.

4.  Wyoming was the last state to change its legal drinking age to 21.  They didn’t make that the law until July of 1988.

5.  In 1947, a plane carrying 11 people crashed over the Andes mountains in Argentina.  Before crashing, they sent the word “STENDEC” in Morse code, and repeated it twice.  No one knows what STENDEC means.

 

(Cleveland.com / Softpedia / Center for Science in the Public Interest / Wikipedia /    Wikipedia)