A cat banned from his local Tesco has turned up anyway to relax on the self-service checkouts. Pumpkin, a ginger tom, was a regular in the Thorpe Marriott branch for well over a year before the store “banned him” last November. However, he returned on Sunday and sprawled out over the checkout.
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Planking record broken in India
An insurance company in India broke a record when 2,471 people flexed their core muscles to hold the abdominal plank position for 60 seconds. Bajaj Allianz Life gathered the crowd to hold the plank position simultaneously, breaking its own record of 2,353 people, which was set at a 2018 Plankathon event in Pune.
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