General Riddles

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

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