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California police are investigating claims that a student mixed the cremated ashes of a grandparent into a batch of cookies.

At least nine youngsters at the Da Vinci Charter Academy which is situated to the west of Sacramento are thought to have sampled the cookies, which are rumoured to have been baked by two of their classmates.

Although nobody is said to have suffered any health issues subsequently, student Andy Knox admitted to being horrified by what happened.

He told KCRA: "I didn't believe her until she pulled out the urn. She told me there's a special ingredient in the cookie. I was kind of horrified."

A man suffered a near-death experience and then updated his Tinder bio fittingly to attract more suitors.

The 27-year-old Virginian man, known only as Joe, has had dating-app users in fits of laughter following his hilarious updated Tinder profile, where he informed potential suitors that he'd been "crushed" by two hay bales weighing 1,500lbs each.

The post was first noticed by 'Bored Panda' and read: "Sup ladies, I'm Joe, I just got crushed by 3,000 pounds. Got a broken pelvis but still dtf (down to f**k). I do have a catheter.

"I don't wanna be 'one of those guys' who lies about his catheter status. The catheter may be an issue but great minds do great things.

"Bedbound, you literally have to do all the work. I probably can't get off... Or get hard. But hey; great minds.

"Anyway, I'm here at UVA medical center if you wanna smash. I should be dead, I still can't wrap my mind around how I survived. It was pure luck. (sic)"

The tinder bio has gone viral and has had users congratulating his "inspiring" Tinder bio.

Meanwhile, Joe is just thrilled that he's able to tell his story and meet potential suitors in spite of his "painful" injuries.

He explained: "I have a long road to recovery ahead of me. And it's gonna be a painful, but that's OK. Because I'm still alive, breathing, and no longer crushed under 3,000lbs of hay, so I welcome any and all pain."

Joe ended the hilarious post with: "I still got that Tinder game."

A conspiracy theorist has claimed that NASA was behind the recent YouTube blackout.

The popular video-hosting website went down for more than an hour earlier this week, and according to Tyler Glockner, the much-discussed blackout was the work of NASA and the US government.

He said on the YouTube channel secureteam10 that a video had been posted that posed a threat to US national security.

Tyler explained: "YouTube was taken offline at the demand of the government and other organisations.

"Apparently, just before the outage, a video had been posted where a man in a uniform stated to the camera that something was about to hit the moon.

"The video was trending, getting thousands of views, then the outage happened. NASA's usual go-to when something like this happens is to just cut the stream or go offline."

The length of a person's finger can indicate their sexuality, according to a new study.

Researchers at Essex University found that women whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers are more likely to be lesbians.

The study looked at identical twins where one sibling was heterosexual and found that the homosexual twin tended to have a greater difference between the length of their index and ring fingers, with the difference being most obvious among women.

The study found that in female twins, the homosexual twin had more so-called male-typical hands than her straight sister.