General Riddles

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?

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

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

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

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

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