On January 15, 1919, a storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst in Boston's North End. The wave was 25 feet high, moved at 35 mph, and killed 21 people. The substance that drowned them was the same thing you put on your pancakes — and the worst part wasn't the wave. It was what came after.

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