Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

Cristina was born in 1888. She just had her 30th birthday today how did that happen?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

Two boys were admitted to a school. When the headmaster asks them about their parents, they tell him that they have same parents (father and mother). On further inquiry, it turns out that they both share the same date for their birthday.

"Are you twins," ask the headmaster.
"No," replies the boys.

Is it possible?

Can you circle exactly four of these numbers such that the total is twelve?

1 6 1
6 1 6
1 6 1
6 1 6

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

A Scientist was fifty years old in the year 2000 but he was forty years old in the year 2010. How can this be possible?

PS: It has a logical answer.

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?