General Riddles

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

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

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

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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.

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

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

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

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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