stranger things
Definition
A popular American science fiction horror television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix, first released in 2016, set in the 1980s and involving supernatural phenomena, alternate dimensions, and a group of kids battling monstrous creatures in the town of Hawkins, Indiana.
(idiomatic) Bizarre, unexpected, or more peculiar events or situations than one might imagine, often used to downplay the oddity of something.
Examples
After spilling coffee on my keyboard during a Zoom call, stranger things happened when it started typing in binary.
My cat's midnight zoomies escalated into stranger things, like rearranging the furniture without paws.
Trying to assemble flat-pack furniture always leads to stranger things than the instructions suggest.
In the world of viral TikToks, stranger things than dancing refrigerators go mega-famous overnight.