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We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly. How can that be possible?
Long and thin, red within, with a nail at the end.
Humans have two that shrink in the light and expand in the dark
What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
What's always coming, but never arrives?
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?