General Riddles

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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.

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

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