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Riddle: A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers
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Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
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Riddle: What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
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Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Answer: Dozens
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Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o”
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Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
Reindeer eyes turn blue in the winter.
Reindeers have truly blue eyes—but only in the winter! According to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, "the eyes of Arctic reindeer change color through the seasons from gold to blue, adapting to extreme changes of light levels in their environment."
The change in color impacts how light is reflected through the animals' retinas, and improves their vision.
Giraffes have purple tongues.
Scientists believe that it's so they don't get sunburns while they eat. The animals' tongues are also around 20 inches long.
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Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “r”
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Riddle: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: Also the letter “e”
Alligators will let manatees swim ahead of them.
In busy waters, manatees will nudge alligators to get in front, and alligators generally oblige.
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Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON
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Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “not”
Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.
Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals. Most sloths will only have a bowel movement once a week, and it can take them up to 30 days to completely digest a single leaf.
For comparison, it takes the average human 12 to 48 hours to ingest, digest, and eliminate waste from food.
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Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago
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Riddle: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Answer: Few
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Riddle: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone
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Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
Adult cats only meow at humans.
You probably know that cats love to talk to their humans. But did you know you're unlikely to see your feline friend interact the same way with another cat? That's because other than kittens meowing at their mothers, cats don't meow at other cats.
Elephants and humans have similar self-soothing techniques.
Baby elephants will suck their trunks to comfort themselves. The babies do it for the same reason humans do (it mimics the action of suckling their mothers).
Female bats give birth to babies that weigh up to a third of their weight.
According to Bat Conservation International, bats give birth to babies—known as pups—that can weigh as much as one-third of the mother's weight. If that doesn't sound like a lot, imagine a person giving birth to a baby that weighed 40 pounds.
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Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue
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Riddle: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?
Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)
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Riddle: What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine
Painted turtles survive winter by breathing through their butts.
Not all creatures head to warmer climates when it gets cold out, and that means they need to learn to survive in chilly conditions. Painted turtles need to adapt to frozen ponds, which restrict their access to the air above the water. They do that by breathing through their butts—specifically, the all-purpose orifice called the cloaca.
Thanks to a process called cloacal respiration, the turtles can get oxygen directly from the water around them.
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Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
Dogs have way fewer taste buds than humans.
While you may think that Fido has the same dinnertime experience as you do, he's actually got a much different taste bud arrangement. Humans have about 9,000 taste buds, while dogs have only around 1,700.
And while they can identify the same four taste sensations as people, dogs are not fond of salt.
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Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
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Riddle: Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
Answer: The river was frozen.