General Riddles

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?

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 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?

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

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!

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

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

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

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