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IT FIGURES?
Compiled by Olivia Doyle



331 THE weight, in pounds, of Chuang Chuang, the male panda at Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand. Keepers there have now put him on a diet in a bid to get him to mate with female panda Lin Hui, who weighs only 253lbs.

"Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast, and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him, " said spokesman Kanika Limtrakul. Bamboo shoots are being cut out of his diet and he is having only bamboo leaves. Previous failed ruses to get the pair to mate have included staging a mock wedding, separating them to try to increase the sexual tension, and showing them videos of other pandas mating.

3,600 THE number of miles a British adventurer will have travelled to become the first person to skateboard across Australia. David Cornthwaite is due to complete his journey in Brisbane tomorrow, having started in Perth last August. Temperatures of 40C-plus mean the 27-yearold graphic designer has gone through more than a dozen tubes of factor-30 sunscreen, while he has also worn through 13 pair of shoes.

1THE position of Spice World - The Movie in a top-10 poll of the worst films of all time.

It was followed by multiple Oscar-winner Titanic - the highest-grossing movie in history. Grease 2 was third, ahead of Waterworld and Hostel in the poll of 12,000 cinema-goers by MSN Movies. The other five were Anaconda, Batman & Robin, Gigli, Catwoman and Stop!

Or My Mom Will Shoot.




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