On Sweet Turned Deadly: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

On a sultry January afternoon in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive container overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown goo that consumed the streets below. Dozens of people met their fate in the unforeseen disaster, crushed by the unexpected impact of the molasses

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