General Riddles

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

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

What can you catch but not throw?

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

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