What's stranger than 'Stranger Things'? How about these random real-life oddities that make our world so endlessly weird?

The Strange But True Team of the Year Didn’t it figure that this would be the year the Washington Nationals won the World Series? All those years when they were clearly The Best Team didn’t ...

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

The Strange But True team of the year, injuries, hitting and pitching feats, and more from the strangest year in the history of strangeness.

History Channel's "Project Blue Book" chronicles the strange but true search for UFOs and little green men.

And while Doctor Strange chooses to have facial hair, the actor is clean-shaved in real life. Elizabeth Olsen returns as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, one of the most powerful Avengers.

So the philosophy of Doctor Strange is indeed based on real life — or at least, theoretical real life — making it far more interesting than your average story about wizards.

'Doctor Strange 2' uses the undead as one of its horror elements, but director Sam Raimi was initially reluctant to pursue that subplot.