The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

On January 15, 1919, the City of Boston suffered its greatest disaster when a storage tank filled with over 2 million gallons of molasses,

burst and killed 21 people and injured 150 more.

Researchers have been studying the unique circumstances surrounding this industrial

accident ever since. Learn more about the Great Boston Molasses

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If you're familiar with molasses, you recognize it as an ingredient usually used in baking.

It's a thick sweet syrup, which if you pour it out of its

container will usually pour very slowly. Because it's so thick and has such a

high viscosity, it seems like it would be easy to avoid a molasses flood by just walking away.

If actual events weren't so tragic, the idea of a molasses flood would almost sound comical.

To understand how the flood happened and why it was so deadly, we need to understand what the Molasses was doing there and what it was used for.

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