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I am an animal thatβs black white and asian.
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
What has 4 fingers and a thumb but is not living?
My geometry is lost in the night to be found in daylight's break. The rigors of time have torn me to shreds, yet I stand to protect that which lies within. What am I?
I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.