General Riddles

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

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

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

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

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

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.

I help all living things to survive. I give shade to others. People use me for their various needs. I have rings to determine my age. Who am I?

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