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■■ A Ukrainian couple who handcuffed themselves together for 123 days in a bid to help their rocky relationship have cut off their shackles and split up. Don’t “repeat what we have done,” Viktoria Pustovitova warned other couples. The 29-year-old beautician said having no personal space was wearying, but the real issue was that, even when chained together, she didn’t get enough of Alexandr Kudlay’s attention. “He did not tell me ‘I miss you,’ while I would like to hear that.” Kudlay, a car salesman, said the experiment had brought him to an inescapable conclusion. “We are not on the same wavelength,” he said. “We are totally different.”

■■ A British man has claimed a new Guinness World Record by stacking five M&Ms on top of one another. “Five M&Ms doesn’t sound like a lot,” says Will Cutbill of Solihull, England,

“but it was nearly impossible.” Pandemic isolation was his inspiration. “I was eating a bag of M&Ms, and I was incredibly bored, so I just decided to see how many of them I could stack on top of each other,” he said. On learning the current record was four, he was determined to best it. When he managed it, “I was absolutely ecstatic,” he said. “I considered attempting six, but there’s no chance.”

■■ A pair of identical twins from Perth, Australia, are so bonded they share everything including a boyfriend, whom they’ve been with for 10 years. “We think of each other as one person,” said Lucy DeCinque, 35. “We’re just never apart, that will never happen.” They shower and go to the bathroom together, sleep in the same bed, and even plan to raise each other’s children as if they were one mom. “You name it and we do it,” said sister Anna. “I don’t think we’d function without each other.”