What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

What is the below Rebus indicate?

A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

Can you find out the remainder when 3^300 is divided by 5?

Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

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

Once while in his court, King Akbar asked Birbal to write something on a wall that makes one sad when read in good times and makes one happy when read in sad times.

He took only a few moment and wrote something that fit the requirements. What did he write?

It is deaf, Dumb and Blind!!!

Still, always tells the truth. What is it?

Which fur should we be getting from the Lion?