No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

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?

Name one eight-letter word with 'kst' in the middle, 'in' the beginning, 'and' at the end.?

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

What is common among 11, 69, and 88?

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

S E Q U E N C _

What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?