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Short Stuff: Boston Molasses Flood
11 minutes Posted Nov 11, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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In 1919 one of the most bizarre disasters in history took place in Boston’s North End when a really fast, towering wave of molasses covered the neighborhood, killing people and animals in horrific ways and knocking buildings from their foundations.

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