True Story: Fact isn't stranger than fiction

Remember kids in movies? Well I hate bio-pics too.

Christopher Walken in At Close Range.

Obviously, no cliche comes into being without a ring of truth to it, but something has always rubbed me wrong about the old adage that ‘fact is stranger than fiction.’ Humanity, in my experience, has a tendency to be messy and difficult, with much of what we categorize as ‘strange’ being the result of overlooked ment…