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Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

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?

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

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