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How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

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22+2/2
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The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?

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Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks
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What has a head and a tail, but no body?

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A coin
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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?

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If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.
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What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?

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The letter 'E'.
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What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?

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It's time to buy a new chair!
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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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Tree
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What gets broken without being held?

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A promise.
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Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?

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The dates are in BC (Before Christ).
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What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

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The letter m.
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