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First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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Onion
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What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?

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The Letter 'E'.
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Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?

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He wanted to draw the curtains.
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Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?

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John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.
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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?

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If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.
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Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?

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The dates are in BC (Before Christ).
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I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?

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A hearse.
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If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?

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5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?
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We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?

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1, 2, 3.
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What has an eye but can not see?

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Needle
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