General Riddles

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

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

A tunnel is 650m long. How far can a horse run into the tunnel if the horse is running at a speed of 10km/hr?
325m Explanation: After that the horse is running out of the tunnel.

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Who am I?

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

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

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