Chris Hadfield hosts an AMA while orbiting the planet

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• Has r/bestof’s decision to ban the default subreddits helped or hurt it? (r/TheoryOfReddit)
   
• Astronaut Chris Hadfield hosts an AMA. While orbiting the planet. (r/IAMA)
   
• Redditors share their weirdest family traditions. (r/AskReddit)
   
• r/LifeProTips acknowledges its failures. (r/LifeProTips)
   
• Brony fandom gets tested. (r/SubredditDrama)
   
• How do I learn more about history? (r/AskHistorians)
   
• Why are storms seemingly worse at night? (r/AskScience)
   
• Why do we clap? (r/explainlikeimfive)
   
• r/explainlikeimfive discusses “phantom vibrations.” (r/explainlikeimfive)

Picture of the day: Creepiness abounds in an abandoned corridor of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. (r/AbandonedPorn)

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