General Riddles

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

I am heavy and have an odd shape. You drop me when you need me and pick me up when you don't need me. Who am I?
Ship anchor

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

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!

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

What has an eye but can not see?

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

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