What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

A pond had 60 fish, out of which, all but 20 died.
How many fishes are now present in that pond?

A man was telling some of his war stories to his grandchildren.
"When the World War I was on the verge of end, I was awarded for my bravery for I had saved a group of my men." He coughed and then added, "When we were fighting in northern France, an enemy soldier threw a grenade at us. Before it could explode, I picked it up and threw it away. For my act of bravery, right before the war ended, A General gave me a sword engraved with the words "Awarded for Display of Bravery and Heroism in World War 1"."

Hearing this, one of the grandson spoke up. "Grandpa, this is not a true story. It can"t be true!"

The truth is that it was not. How did the grand children know it?

There are three boxes of different sizes with three cupcakes inside each of the boxes in Christina's kitchen. At night her daughter wakes up and goes to the kitchen. She opens a box and eats all three cakes.

But in the morning Christina finds out that each box still had three cupcakes. How?

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 ?

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

why?

If you paint a brown house white it will become a white house. If the stoplight changes from red to green, then the light is green. So, if you throw a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become?

There was an aeroplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?

Take 9 from 6, 10 from 9, 50 from 40, and leave 6.

How Come ??

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?