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The actors who played brother and sister on "Dexter" began dating, fell in love, got engaged, got married, and got divorced, all while continuing to play brother and sister on TV.
Even after years of lying about her brother Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a way to extort money from the press, when La Toya Jackson asked him for forgiveness he simply opened his arms, hugged her and said “I will always love my sister.”
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The Russo Brothers were given the reins of the MCU after Marvel president Kevin Feige saw and loved the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs"
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Mohammad Ali successfully talked a suicidal person threatening to jump off a ledge out of going through with it by saying, “you’re my brother! I love you and I wouldn't lie to you ... I want to help you” to this complete stranger in 1981.
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In an interview Dave Grohl was asked “If you could spare one object from your house if it was on fire, what would it be?” Dave replied with “A letter Kurt Cobain gave me in ‘92 that said 'I love you like a brother.”
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A set of British twins separated at birth and raised by different adopted parents, fell in love and got married only to realise that they were brother and sister
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Stephen Colbert's father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him "you gotta learn to love the bomb" and as a result, years later he came to realize "I love the thing that I most wish had not happened."
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Barry White was a gangmember in South Central, LA and after his brothers murder, doing time in jail and listening to an Elvis song he left the gang life and began singing love songs.
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Philadelphia is known as "The City of Brotherly Love" because it's composed of the Greek words for love (phileo) and brother (adelphos)
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a well-read historian who wrote a novel about Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft. His love of these novels stemmed from the books he read while travelling playing basketball.
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Members of Egyptian royalty were expected to marry within the family. Due to the commonality, the ancient Greeks created a word to describe them—philadelphoi. The word, was transformed into Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love)."
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The Shriners (known for the Shriners Hospitals) are a body of Freemasons dedicated to Fun, Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.
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Stephen Colbert lost his father and 2 brothers in a plane crash when he was just 10 years old. Although he was aimless as a teenager, barely graduating high school, he later learned to accept the event and credits it with making him the comedian he is today saying "I learned to love it".
John Lennon's first son Julian, despite having a fractured relationship with Yoko Ono, has a very close relationship with his half brother Sean Lennon, and cites his love for him as the reason he made peace with Yoko. - source
Anne was proposed to by the brother of one of her close friends. She turned him down the next day because she realized she was not in love with him.
Philadelphia is literally named "Brotherly Love" in Greek, by William Penn who wanted freedom from religious persecution as a Quaker
Sutematsu Oyama, Japan's first college educated woman, who was sent to America by her brother for money. She married a prince she did not love, Iwao Oyama, so she could open a school for girls. - source
The Roman emperor Caracalla, when visiting Alexandria because he loved Alexander the Great, heard some people making jokes about how he murdered his brother. In response, he had almost the entire city killed and buried wholesale, then didn't mention it more as they "deserved to suffer this fate"
Prince changed his name to the unpronounceable “symbol of love” after he realized the word "Prince" was owned by Warner Brothers. Once the contract expired, Prince was free to go back to his birth name.
Bob Marley suffered racial prejudice as a child in Jamaica as a result of being half-white. Bob fell in love with a black girl, but her older brother hated Marley for being half-white and referred to Bob as a "white man" who would "screw up our bloodlines"
Hans Christian Andersen's unrequited love affairs were widely referenced throughout his fairy tales, in particular with a woman who only viewed him "as a brother".
Amman, the capital of Jordan, was once called Philadelphia after Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Philadelphia literally means "brotherly love" in Greek.
Philadelphia is named after a city in ancient Turkey. That "city of brotherly love" was so-called to commemorate the relationship between kings Attalus II and Eumenes II of Pergamum. Attalus refused multiple opportunities to take the throne from his brother.
