TIL Thread

[Tillu]

1 hour ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Can there be meat with none of these labels? I mean - Just meat? Non-halal. Non-jhatka. Non-label. 

 

Even online meat delivery apps like BigBasket and Liscious are providing labels now.

 

Liscious in the beginning publicly specified that it provides only hahal cuts across its platform but later they stopped specifying the labels.

 

BigBasket though clearly specifies the halal and jhatka labels.

[BacktoCricaddict]

54 minutes ago, Tillu said:

 

Even online meat delivery apps like BigBasket and Liscious are providing labels now.

 

Liscious in the beginning publicly specified that it provides only hahal cuts across its platform but later they stopped specifying the labels.

 

BigBasket though clearly specifies the halal and jhatka labels.

What if someone wanted neither halal nor jhatka? I would have such products with marked down price. 

[Tillu]

41 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

What if someone wanted neither halal nor jhatka? I would have such products with marked down price. 

 

Halal and Jhatka are the only two common ways to kill a chicken and I couldn't imagine any other way.

 

Most Hindus do not care how their meat is generally prepared and it is only lately a few of them are enquiring the methods used to kill the poor animal.

 

Even food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy leave it to the restaurants to provide the necessary food labels  and from my experience most restaurants don't provide any explicit labels.

 

Edited October 4, 2025 by Tillu

[BacktoCricaddict]

8 hours ago, Tillu said:

and from my experience most restaurants don't provide any explicit labels.

And I think that is a good thing. If people want specialty labels, they can go to specialty outlets that provide these labels at additional cost associated with the labeling process.  

[Mariyam]

10 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

What if someone wanted neither halal nor jhatka? I would have such products with marked down price. 

These are certifications. 

 

A halal or jhatka slaughter house is certified by the government as legal/hygienic etc. 

 

There is no other certification that I know of. Uncertified meat simply can’t be sold for human consumption.

[BacktoCricaddict]

3 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Uncertified meat simply can’t be sold for human consumption.

Hmm ...

 

My beef (no pun intended) was not regarding certifying for food safety. That should be an expectation.

 

Certifying for cultural/religious preferences is a luxury. So, in that context, "uncertified" is neither halaal, nor jhatka, but is certified for safety.  

Edited October 4, 2025 by BacktoCricaddict

[Mariyam]

On 10/4/2025 at 9:27 PM, BacktoCricaddict said:

Hmm ...

 

My beef (no pun intended) was not regarding certifying for food safety. That should be an expectation.

 

Certifying for cultural/religious preferences is a luxury. So, in that context, "uncertified" is neither halaal, nor jhatka, but is certified for safety.  

The certification is essentially procedural. When an an at our gets a certificate it’s two fold: that they are following halal/jhatka as the government understands it to be and that they have the necessary tools to carry out the procedure and manage waste.

 

I get where you are coming from, however, it’s a lot of effort for what would essentially be a very small market. First you have to define YOUR process and get it ratified. Then you have to ensure that there is necessary space/tools/ waste disposal and get that ratified too.

[Tillu]

Ever wondered why we always see only the near side of the moon and never the far side. This is due to a phenomenon called Tidal Locking or Gravitational Locking.

 

The moon always completes an orbit around its axis and one full rotation around the earth at the same time. During this process the near side of the moon is always synchronised with the Earth's orbit.

 

 

But it was not always the case. After the formation of the moon it had an asynchronous orbit with respect to the earth and it was only after hundreds and thousands of rotations, it synchronised with the Earth's orbit.

 

And this phenomenon is not a rare occurence, almost all the large moons in our Solar system are synchronised with their respective planets. For example Jupiter and Saturn have several tidally locked moons like Ganymede and Titan.

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Keep the flame burning @Tillu and @BacktoCricaddict Anna. Let the learning continue. 
 

one guy on IG claimed Ayodhya is twice the distance from North Pole compared to South Pole!! I was not impressed. TIL , Aise faux  gyaan pelte bahut hain!!

[BacktoCricaddict]

TIL that natural selection will always find a way:

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-spider-web-discovered-in-bizarre-sulfur-cave/

 

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While exploring a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, scientists at the Czech Speleological Society discovered the largest spider web ever recorded. The vast “megacity,” spanning more than 1,040 square feet —nearly half the size of a tennis court—is home to about 111,000 spiders of the species Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans, according to a study by a separate group of researchers. This is the first documented case of either of these two species constructing webs together, the study’s authors reported recently in Subterranean Biology.

 

Sulfur caves are among the most extreme habitats on Earth. They are completely dark and filled with hydrogen sulfide gas, which is toxic to most life-forms. Inside, species’ survival depends on chemical reactions powered by microbes that oxidize sulfur. These microorganisms are the base of a unique food chain that supports a community of cave-dwelling organisms.

 

To understand how the spiders survive in this environment, the team analyzed the chemical signatures in their tissues, which revealed that the arachnids feed on tiny midges that hatch from cave pools. Those flies themselves depend on sulfur-oxidizing microbes as their primary food source.

 

A genetic analysis showed that the cave-dwelling spiders are becoming distinct from populations of the same species that live outside, suggesting they are adapting to the underground environment, the researchers wrote. They think that this genetic isolation, combined with a stable and abundant food supply, may have driven these species—which have never been reported to form colonies—to evolve colonial behavior.

 

The new finding “shows that nature still holds many surprises for us,” says study co-author Urák István of the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Romania.

 

 

[BacktoCricaddict]

And so, you thought plant = photosynthetic? Think again:

 

https://www.science.org/content/article/these-ghost-flowers-thrive-without-photosynthesis-one-scientist-learning-how

 

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n essence, mycoheterotrophic plants are thieves. Found in forests worldwide, they entwine their roots with the thread-like hyphae of soil fungi. These fungi acquire carbon from trees and shrubs while providing nutrients in a mutually beneficial exchange. The mycoheterotrophs then steal some of that carbon from the fungi, instead of relying on sunlight and chlorophyll to power photosynthesis.

 

More than 33,000 plant species—including certain clubmosses, ferns, liverworts and all orchids—are known to be initially mycoheterotrophic during germination and early development. Botanists have also identified about 600 species, nearly half of which are orchids, that have fully abandoned photosynthesis and depend on fungi throughout their lives. (An unknown number of species are partially mycoheterotrophic, drawing carbon from both photosynthesis and fungi, and may represent a transitional stage toward full mycoheterotrophy.)

 

Evolutionary biologists have found evidence that full mycoheterotrophy has evolved independently more than 40 times. The strategy could be an adaption to surviving in dense forests where light is scarce. But how mycoheterotrophy arises and persists is still a mystery—in part because the plants can be elusive. In Japan, Suetsugu says, “There has been very little research done on mycoheterotrophic plants.” Ollerton says the same is true elsewhere in the world.

 

 

 

 

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TIL, you can say anything on TV and people will take you seriously