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Today, Reddit users had the opportunity to ask Larry King some burning questions on the site's Q&A subsection — IAmA. Since leaving CNN, the 78-year-old cofounded Ora TV, a production company, with billionaire Carlos Slim. Larry King Now, a new web series produced by his firm, recently debuted on Hulu.

Here are some of the more interesting quotes from King:

• The best piece of advice given to him: "Again, always be yourself. Every famous person I met had this advice. Never be afraid to be yourself, and never be afraid to take risks. People who don't take risks never go anywhere."
• The miles of suspenders he owns: "You'd have to calculate, but I do have 150 suspenders. I have a lot more ties than suspenders though."
• A time when he was scared during an interview: "I was in prison on Rikers interviewing a mother and son convicted of killing someone. Sante Kimes and Kenny Kimes. The way the son looked at me, had I not been surrounded by guards, I think he would have [killed] me."
• Going back to a time in his life: "It would be the day I started smoking, and I would have not started to smoke. I paid a heavy price for my tobacco enjoyment."
• What it's like to interview Malcolm X: "I really found him fascinating, bright. He taught me a lot about myself. I was always very liberal in the civil rights area, yet he made me think even deeper. He said to me 'You wonder what it's like to be young and never see yourself on TV. You're not in commercials, there's no black Santa Clause on the street. You're invisible.' That really struck me."

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If you're hunting for a job, then be aware that there's a way that hiring managers are assessing how good you are at getting things done. Although we often think being good at interviewing helps, Yishan Wong, the CEO of Reddit, says on Quora that one should be "relatively suspicious" about interviews and that the "interview process is mostly self-reporting and especially, for the worst of the fakers, it's about putting on a performance."

Instead, to truly stand out as a person who gets things done, Wong says the evidence lies in random projects and activities you do on the side, excluding "all projects done under the aegis of a school assignment or workplace job."

What he looks for is someone who has a track record of starting extra projects outside of what's required for school or work. He says that almost everyone he's hired who is unusually productive "had a clear prior record of being someone who did tons of random projects in a very obvious way."

Science enthusiasts' favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson signed on this weekend to take part in an online Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) chat, which allowed Reddit users to submit questions on space, concepts of the universe, and life in general.

One literary commenter asked Neil which books should be read by every person on the planet, to which the director of the Hayden Planetarium offered the following eight books. Consuming these books, he said, provides "profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the Western world."

• The Bible
• The System of the World, Sir Isaac Newton
• On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
• The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
• The Art of War, Sun Tzu
• The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

Have you read any of the books on Neil's suggested reading list? If so, how did it impact your life?