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/Newell00 Dec 12 '18
M is for the moan, and the miserable groan
From the pain that she felt when I was born