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Great Molasses Flood
- seccess 11y ago"In 1919, a tank of molasses in Boston collapsed. Molasses is thick, so you might think it would flow out slowly, but it didn't. The wave of molasses swept down the streets too fast to outrun, demolishing buildings and killing 21 people." From (https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/), where I originally learned about this event :P
- klenwell 11y agoThis line from the Wikipedia article is worthy of Bulwer-Lytton consideration: Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air.
- redwards510 11y ago21 dead? It was a Molassacre.
- bloat 11y agoAnd from the "plus ça change" department - the company that owned the tank tried to avoid responsibility by claiming that it had been blown up by anarchists.
- wnoise 11y agoIt turns out that "Can't run faster than Molasses in January" isn't all that slow...