HardLateral
"A bear walks one mile south, one mile east, then one mile north and ends up exactly where it started. What colour is the bear?"
Answer
White — it is a polar bear at the North Pole
Explanation
The only place on Earth where you can walk one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north and end up in your exact starting position is the North Pole. The only bear native to the North Pole is the polar bear, which is white.
This is a hard riddle in the Lateral Thinking category — Riddles that require thinking completely outside the box.
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