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"I will break you."

Peter the Great in a letter to Carolus XII of Sweden.
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>>406434
Sweden once put everything into building what would essentially be the equivalent to a Super Star Destroyer of a ship

It was so big that when it was launched it fell over and sank
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>>406440
Swedes also like seeing their women ravaged by the bbc as well.
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>>406440

"When this baby hits 88 knots per day, you're gonna see some serious shit."

- Captain Söfring Hansson, Maiden voyage of Vasa
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>>406440
At least they got a nice museum out of it
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>>406440
didn't they have any mathematicians to tell them that they were being completely retarded?
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>>406447
Not on /his/, please. Leave your memes to /int/. You're not funny.
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>>406460

Knots is a measure of speed not distance.
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>>406650

The ship failed stability tests early on, but the king, out of country at the time, urged that she be launched as quickly as possible.
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