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Can you guess what each of these riddles is describing?

#1

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

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#2

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

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#3

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

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#4

What can you catch but not throw?

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#5

I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

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#6

What's black and white and red all over?

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#7

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

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#8

I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

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#9

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

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#10

The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

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