“The Wizard of Oz” celebrates the anniversary of its national release on Tuesday. It has now been 76 years since Judy Garland taught American filmgoers that “there’s no place like home.”

It may have been simpler times back in 1939 — when tin men didn’t feel inadequate to billionaire superheroes, scarecrows didn’t have to worry about farming drones and lions could walk on a yellow brick road without the fear of running into a dentist — but despite the passing decades, fans continue to return to Kansas, then return to Oz and then return to Kansas again. Diamonds on the soles of your shoes may cure walking blues, but ruby slippers are forever.

Below are five things you somehow still haven’t learned about this national treasure of a film:

1. On multiple occasions, the studio almost cut Judy Garland’s iconic rendition of “Over the Rainbow” from the film entirely.

The “man behind the curtain” came .

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