How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?

Decode the below four famous ciphers:

8P of the SS
1M of the E
1S of the SS
60M in 1H

On a certain day, John celebrated his birthday. Two days later, his older twin brother Jacob celebrated his birthday.

Is this even possible? How can it be?

John can place six large boxes or nine small boxes into a carton.

Can you find out in how many cartons can he place sixty-six boxes in total?

Do you know who was buried in John's tomb?

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

When Jack was six years old he hammered a nail into his favourite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, Jack returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimetres each year, how much higher would the nail be?

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

Which English verb becomes past tense just by rearranging the letters?

An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?