General Riddles

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

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.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

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.

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

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

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

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?
The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South Pole).

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