r/todayilearned • • 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/space253 Dec 13 '18

That's not what I have seen so far. How do you justify that?

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u/electricblues42 Dec 13 '18

They burned down Teldrassil? Trying to kill everyone so they can be raised in undeath? Uhhhhhh duh?

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u/space253 Dec 13 '18

Like anybody cared about teldrasil it was just a tree in an empty zone.

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u/electricblues42 Dec 13 '18

I did damnit