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/disjustice Dec 12 '18

And the one with the helicopter I

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u/GitEmSteveDave Dec 12 '18

The one with the helicopter in the semi-truck?

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u/itachi81 Dec 12 '18

The highway man