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Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
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Riddle: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror
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Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps
Otters have the world's thickest fur.
They're thought to have up to one million hairs per square inch. Their fur consists of two layers and is designed to trap a layer of air next to their skin so their skin doesn't get wet.
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Riddle: I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key
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Riddle: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money
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Riddle: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day, and night
Alligators can grow for more than 30 years.
According to a 2018 study published in Copeia, alligators often haven't hit their full size until 33.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Their legislative powers, however, are still up for debate.
Snow leopards don't roar.
Snow leopards have less-developed vocal cords than their fellow large cats, meaning that they can't roar, but make a purr-like sound called a chuff instead.
For a 2010 study published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, scientists researched why some cats have a higher-pitched meow than others. They found that it's not size that determines a kitty's call, but habitat.
Axolotls can regenerate their parts.
Salamanders are the only vertebrates that can replace their skin, limbs, tail, jaws, and spines at any age. On the flip side, humans can regenerate lost limb buds as embryos and fingertips as young children.
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Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road
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Riddle: I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire
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Riddle: The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
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Riddle: A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: The man’s son
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Riddle: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
Answer: A stapler
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Riddle: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map
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Riddle: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing
Want to better your conversational English? Though unconventional, tongue twisters might help. If you have watched Modern Family, you'd know how much it helped Gloria with the "Bitty bought a bit of boo**, but the boo** bitta."
Here are some tongue twisters both short and long you'd try at home. I recommend practising infront a mirror.
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Eleven benevolent elephants.
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She sees cheese.
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Six sticky skeletons.
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Truly rural.
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Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
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Which witch is which?
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Willy’s real rear wheel.
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Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
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Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
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Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
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A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.