General Riddles

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

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

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

How many pairs of animals did Moses take with him on his Ark to save the world's animals from the Great Flood?
It was not Moses, but Noah, who built an Ark to save the world's animals from the Great Flood.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

I started learning to drive today. Just a few minutes back, I went down a one-way street in the wrong direction but I did not break the traffic rules. How?
Simple, I was not driving then, I was walking.

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