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I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

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 am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

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

I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

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.

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

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

I am a 5 letter word. Take away my first and last letter, I will remain same. If you also take away my middle letter, I will remain same. Who am I?

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

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