Hey kids, if you've been on earth for any amount of time, you should know that this place is pretty wet and wild.

With water just falling from the sky whenever it feels like it, it's no surprise that floods are among nature's most common means of wrecking humanity's hard work.

However, not every flood has been made out of plain old H2O.

Today we're gonna talk about some of the few non-water liquid disasters that mankind has endured.

January 15, 1919 was a particularly warm day for Boston.

At around 40 degrees Fahrenheit, well above the freezing temperatures of the past week, men wore their hats a little less snuggly, children huddled about the fire a little less closely, and a metal tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses decided to collapse.

Now I know what you're thinking.

Sam, I've never even held a molasses before.

I didn't know there was 2.3 million gallons of it in the world.

What was that much molasses doing in one place?