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What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
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A mountain
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What’s black and white and read all over?
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A newspaper
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What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
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A staircase
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What has many needles, but doesn't sew?
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A pine tree
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What has a face and hands but no arms or legs?
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A clock
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What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
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The future
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What word is always spelled wrong in the dictionary?
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Wrong
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What has four eyes but can't see?
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Mississippi
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What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
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A glove
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What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A towel
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
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The letter M
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What has one eye but can’t see?
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A needle
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What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
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A deck of cards
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What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
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An echo
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What can be long or short, but is never wrong?
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An opinion
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What begins with an E and only contains one letter?
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An envelope
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Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
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None. He has three sisters.
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I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
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Also the letter “e”
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A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
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He was born on February 29.
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If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
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A mirror
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You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
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The match
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What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
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A glove
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I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
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Few
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You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
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All the people on the boat are married.
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Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
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The letter “r”
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What has one eye, but can’t see?
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A needle
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I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. who am I?
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You are a barber
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What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
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A deck of cards
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I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
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A map
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Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
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The river was frozen.
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What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
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An envelope
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What word in the English language does the following
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Heroine
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I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
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Fire
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If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
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A secret
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A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
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He was bald.
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You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
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The letter “e”
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If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
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You have two apples.
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A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
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Three
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What month of the year has 28 days?
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All of them
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What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
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The letter “o”
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Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
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They are a grandfather, father and son.
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The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
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A coffin
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I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
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Seven
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I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
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Your shadow
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
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Footsteps
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The poor have it, the rich require; and all men carry to their graves?
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Nothing
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What has words, but never speaks?
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A book
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A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
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Three
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What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
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Stone
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What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
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A fence
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It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
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Your name
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What has one head, one foot and four legs?
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A bed
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David’s parents have three sons
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David
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Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
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The word 'ton'
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If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
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Second place
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What question can you never answer yes to?
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Are you asleep yet?
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What can’t be put in a saucepan?
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It’s lid
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I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
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A key
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Where does today come before yesterday?
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In an English dictionary
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What kind of band never plays music?
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A rubber band
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What is the end of everything?
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The letter “g”
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What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
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1, 2 and 3
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What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
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A blackboard
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What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
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A table
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What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
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Day, and night
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What has hands, but can’t clap?
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A clock
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People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
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Money
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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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Short
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What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
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A Christmas tree
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What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
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A comb
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Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
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Five. Each daughter has the same brother.
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I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
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It's breath
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Where does one wall meet the other wall?
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On the corner
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What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife?
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Nothing
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What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
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Queue, it is pronounced same without the letters 'ueue'
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Which is heavier
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Neither—they both weigh a ton.
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There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
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There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
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Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
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The letter “R.”
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What is harder to catch the faster you run?
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Your breath.
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Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
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A match.
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What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
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Your name.
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Jared’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
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Jared.
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What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
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An envelope.
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When is a door no longer a door?
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When it’s ajar.
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What part of the chicken has the most feathers?
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The outside.
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Spelled forward, I’m what you do every day; spelled backward, I’m something you hate. What am I?
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Live.
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
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The letter “M.”
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A bus driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street. He passes police officers, but they don’t stop him. Why?
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He’s walking.
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How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
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Just one. After that, your stomach’s not empty anymore.
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What do you lose the moment you share it?
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A secret.
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What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
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Incorrectly.
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Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?
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Ton.
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What has many keys but can’t open any locks?
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A piano.
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Which month has 28 days?
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All of them.
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I am weightless, but put me in a bucket, and I will make it lighter. What am I?
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A hole.
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What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
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A bar of soap.
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What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
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Their middle names 'the'.
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Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
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Nothing.
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What’s at the end of the rainbow?
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The letter “W.”
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Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
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Time.
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