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

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

As I was going to the mall I met a man with seven wives, Each wive held two bags, Each bag held a mother cat, Each mother cat had six babies, How many people where going to the mall?
One! As I was going to the mall I met a man...

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

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

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