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Lucy Punch, also known as Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events, has played an evil stepsister in no fewer than four different versions of Cinderella

After winning a record $314 million in the lottery, Jack Whittaker had a series of unfortunate events, including his property being vandalized, his granddaughter dying of an OD, a Casino suing him for bounced checks and his house burning down completely

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1. A "jointly built American-Israeli cyber weapon" infected ~60% of Iran's computers, effectively crashing 1000 nuclear centrifuges in an apparent "series of unfortunate events".

2. In the movie "A Series of Unfortunate Events", the protagonists cook spaghetti alla puttanesca. While they say it is Italian for "very few ingredients" it is actually Italian for "spaghetti of the whore."

3. Thanks to a series of unfortunate mistakes the word dord with a meaning of density appeared in Webster's Second New International Dictionary in 1934 where it remained undetected for five years.

4. "Bender" is a slang for "Homosexual" in British English, leading to a very unfortunate phrasing for the Avatar series

5. In 1889, Seattle was burned to the ground, totaling over $650 million worth of damages. The fire started from a pot of glue boiling over, and through a series of unfortunate events, the fire spread to cover 120 acres. Casualties included one boy and a million rodents.

6. Nazi scientists actually developed and tested a series of bioweapons. Unfortunately for them, Hitler was against the usage of these weapons.

7. The name Lemony Snicket, author of the hit childhood series 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', is actually a pseudonym for the author's real name, Daniel Handler. Snicket is actually a character whom was the former fiance of the Baudelaire's mother.

8. World War I started not because one country was trying to start a war, but that a number of countries just couldn't do enough to stop the war after a series of mistakes, unfortunate mishaps, and a collection of less-talented political leaders

9. Lemony Snicket, the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, wrote a Christmas story called "The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming"

10. The early inventors of voice recognition received almost nothing for their invention due to a series of unfortunate incidents and fraud

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Watching Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with subtitles will translate Sunny's baby talk.

One of the stuntmen on the series of Marco Polo on netflix was set to be Ju Kun, but unfortunately he was he was killed during a horrific crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. - source

The writer of The Series of Unfortunate Events played accordion for Magnetic Fields. - source

Neil Patrick Harris was cast as Count Olaf in the Netflix Original Series, A Series of Unfortunate Events.

As of 2019, Chris Tucker's net worth is at -$11.5 million. It's so unfortunate that he has a negative figure considering one of his films; 'Rush Hour' which he starred in its three sequels grossed him over $200 million per series. - source