On Sweet Turned Deadly: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

On a sultry January morning in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive container overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured suddenly, unleashing a tidal wave thick, brown goo that swamped the streets below. Scores of people were caught in the unforeseen disaster, buried under the unexpected force of the molasses. The sig

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