General Riddles

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

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

I am a fruit. I am tasty and provide lots of energy. You can find also me in a calendar. 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.

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I am soft and transparent. I am so small that you can keep me on your fingers. I have no light but I help you to see the beautiful world. I improve your vision only when I come in contact with you. Who am I?
Contact Lens

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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