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What was the Boston Molasses Disaster?
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|Christmas 2025
Molasses the sticky, syrupy leftovers from sugar production - can be used to make a wide variety of things, from baked treats and rum to animal feed and industrial alcohol for munitions.
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That was why, in 1915, with the First World War under way and demand peaking, a colossal storage tank with a capacity of about 8.7 million litres appeared on the waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts.
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