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

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.

Find the missing number: 6 13 25 51 101 ?
203 Explanation: 6x2+1=13 13x2-1=25 25x2+1=51 51x2-1=101 101x2+1=203

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

Here come the best enigmas that appeared in the Batman movies - usually Riddler asking Bruce Wayne. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace.
A clock.

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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

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