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Phrase(s): Truth is stranger than fiction. Go to Fact is stranger than fiction.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833).
American Heritage Idioms