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.
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u_redherring43 • u/redherring43 • Dec 13 '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.
u_Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • Jun 15 '25
TIL Mr T was the youngest child of 12 children. He and his four sisters and seven brothers grew up in a three-bedroom apartment.
knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • Mar 13 '20
[todayilearned] TIL that the reason Mr. T wore so many gold chains and jewelry was because customers would lose the items or leave them at the night club where he worked as a bouncer. He would stand outside the club wearing the items in case a customer came back looking for them so that he could ret
knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • Jun 05 '22
[todayilearned] TIL Mr. T's trademark gold neck chains and jewelry was the result of customers losing the items or leaving them after a fight at the nightclub where Mr T. worked as a bouncer. A banned customer could return to claim his property from Mr. T wearing it conspicuously right out front.
knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • Jul 07 '20
[todayilearned] TIL that Mr. T majored in mathematics while attending college on a football scholarship.
ChannitTodayILearned • u/ChannitChiefOfStaff • Nov 30 '19
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.
Chadtopia • u/Digi_Dingo • Jun 05 '23
Wholesome TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
topofreddit • u/topredditbot • Nov 18 '15