I just discovered that you can make a sprite point in a random direction by using the keyword "_random_". Look inside for more info.
I discovered this when experimenting with monkithi's project 初のjsonハックに成功‼︎: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/727073660/ The following project has several more examples of using strings in blocks to access hidden features: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/423340642/