This is only for ages 18 and up.

In the winter of 1919, a massive steel tank loomed over Boston’s North End, a ticking time bomb of corporate negligence. When the structure finally surrendered to the pressure of 2.3 million gallons of molasses, it unleashed a lethal, 25-foot tidal wave moving at 35 miles per hour. This episode explores the harrowing physics of a non-Newtonian disaster, the suffocating aftermath for immigrant families, and the landmark legal battle that fundamentally rewrote American building codes.