The phrase "a curious bit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is intriguing or unusual, often in a light-hearted or informal context.
Example: "As I was reading the article, I stumbled upon a curious bit of information that caught my attention."
Alternatives: "an interesting piece" or "a fascinating tidbit".
This was a curious bit of testimony.
"It's a curious bit about James Murdoch saying he wants to think about his options" — options that included "making a large payment to keep this quiet," Mr. Watson said.
Finally, the 49ers' chief executive Jed York fired Singletary late Sunday, a curious bit of timing because everybody knew the move was coming at the end of the season.
It is a curious bit of symmetry that the mayoral election here today represented a different kind of quandary -- the struggle for power between one generation of African-American politicians and another.
LG's new G5 phone is a curious bit of kit: essentially a workaday-looking smartphone, but one that features a weird slidey thing at the bottom to remove, and quite likely lose, your battery.
(And -- just checking in with jazz politics here -- wasn't Kenny G reviled without pity not long ago for daring to play a duet against a different Louis Armstrong recording?) But it was a curious bit of tinkering, done for the sake of doing it, and technically it worked without a hitch.
Overall, this is a bit of a curious turn of events, but it does make sense to bring the Google Brain project and the company's other AI initiatives under a single umbrella.
(One curious bit in an otherwise straightforward design: If you want to browse a specific channel's shows, you first tap into the search bar. It's not the first place I thought to look, but it works).
The desire to have a greater say, and assert its legitimate interests in the region, she recently wrote, is behind a curious new bit of official phraseology.
"It's the most curious bit of psychobabble.
What were we to infer from that curious bit of cross-cutting?
