General Riddles

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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