General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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

Make the following equation correct by using only 1 line: 102 + 5 + 8 = 650
102+548=650 (use the single line to make the + 4)

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

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