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A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

I am a seven letter word. I have two sets of double letters in a row. I can fly like a bird or a plane. Kids love me. I end with N. Who am I?

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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!

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

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

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