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The Mystery of the Shrinking Timeline
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The Mystery of the Shrinking Timeline

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6 Riddles
3 min
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Flame
What gets shorter as it gets older?
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A Candle
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Writing
I have a head, a tail, but no body. I get shorter the longer I work. What am I?
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A Pencil
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Paradox
The more you take from me, the larger I grow. What am I?
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A Hole
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Bathroom
What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A Towel
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Time
What has a face that never smiles, hands but no arms, and moves only forward?
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A Clock
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Fire
What loses its head in the morning but regains it at night?
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A Match
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Did You Know?

The oldest surviving candles in Europe originated from the 1st century AD, made from tallow (animal fat).

Before erasers, people used bread crumbs to erase pencil marks.

The phrase 'burning the candle at both ends' originated from a 1920s poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The hardest natural material known is diamond, but it can still be shortened over millions of years through erosion.

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