These Weird But True Facts Made Us Realize There is So Much We Don’t Know About the World

I had to do a double-take when I heard this. My disbelief was so strong that it even made me doubt if I actually knew what molasses was. Turns out I do know – it’s a dark brown sweet sludge made by refining sugarcane – but that only makes the headline even more unbelievable.

As it turns out, the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 is quite a well-documented event, unprecedented as it may have been. What do you think they would’ve written on the tombstones of those eleven people who tragically perished at the hands of the molasses? Something like “A bitter-sweet end”…?