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If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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

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

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Decode the following message: AENDFNDFNNIRDERDESIIEIIEAEND
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Explanation: Write the alphabets in four rows for example:

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

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

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