In 1919 a storage tank containing more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed in Boston, letting loose a wave that rushed through the streets at 35 mph (56 km/h).
In 1919 a storage tank containing more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed in Boston, letting loose a wave that rushed through the streets at 35 mph (56 km/h).
A blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. The sealed lake from which it flows contains a primordial ooze of microbes.
Bills itself as “probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.”
The excavated ditches contained thousands of grains of charred barley which scientists believe are the remains of high quality barley malt needed for making beer.