General Riddles

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

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?

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

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

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

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