Why are televisions attracted to people?

An evil man kidnapped someone and made them take one of two pills. One was harmless, but the other was poisonous. Whichever pill the victim took, the kidnapper took the other one. The victim took their pill with water and died. The kidnapper survived. How did the kidnapper get the harmless pill?

Why do we preferably have round manhole covers and not square ones?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?

Can you count the number of triangles in the given picture?

Vin Diesel is pulling a theft and has planned to run away with all the cash kept in the safe. But the only way to open the safe is the 13 character password. He has a set of five clues given to him by a trustworthy source.

Exactly two of the below statements are false.
The password is contained within this sentence.
The password is not in this hint.
The password is within only one of these statements.
At least one of the above statements is a lie.

Can you count the number of squares in the figure below?

If a shopkeeper can only place the weights on one side of the common balance. For example, if he has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names of the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000? This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?