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Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. 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.

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