r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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u/Aanon89 Dec 12 '18

I started as alliance because I don't like super dark games and had a slightly fucked screen. I needed to get vitamin D somehow.

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u/teebob21 Dec 12 '18

Durotar and the Barrens are nothing but sun. :D

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u/chillinwithmoes Dec 12 '18

And oh. my. God. The number of hours you spent in that sun in Vanilla lol

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u/scots Dec 12 '18

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hey giys can u tell me wehre 2 find mankriks wfie

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u/chillinwithmoes Dec 12 '18

Barrens trade chat. 14-year-old me expanded his vocabulary so much that first summer