General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

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

I started learning to drive today. Just a few minutes back, I went down a one-way street in the wrong direction but I did not break the traffic rules. How?
Simple, I was not driving then, I was walking.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

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

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

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?
The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South Pole).

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