The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
On a January afternoon in Boston, a massive tank of molasses burst and sent a wave of sticky syrup through the streets at 35 mph. It sounds absurd — it was absolutely real.
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On a January afternoon in Boston, a massive tank of molasses burst and sent a wave of sticky syrup through the streets at 35 mph. It sounds absurd — it was absolutely real.
Saskatchewan doesn't observe daylight saving time. The result? Half the year it's in one time zone, the other half it's in another — without changing a single clock.
A data enthusiast spent six months cataloguing every Tim Hortons location in Canada. What he found about the geography of coffee is genuinely fascinating.
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