9 Jaw-Dropping Fun Facts About Jaws: Dive Into the Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of This Iconic Film

1. Shark Denture Factory

Talk about a never-ending buffet of pearly whites: sharks are nature's denture factory, producing and utilizing over 20,000 teeth in their lifetime, constantly rotating them like a conga line of chompers to ensure a razor-sharp and powerful bite.
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2. Pioneer of Blockbuster Ads

Before you go thinking Jaws was the ultimate marine moneymaker that sunk the Titanic of cinema, we've got a cinematic mythbuster swimming your way: Jaws wasn't actually the first Hollywood blockbuster, but rather, a pioneer in the advertising realm by using prime-time TV spots and extensive marketing tie-ins, making jaws drop and changing the trajectory of the summer blockbuster genre.
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3. Dermal Denticles: Fashion to Function

Despite a toothache being a shark's worst nightmare, they've managed to turn it into a fashion statement with potential world-changing applications: Sharks possess unique, tooth-like scales known as dermal denticles, which not only provide protection and improve swimming efficiency, but are also being studied by engineers for creating energy-efficient products and even inspired Speedo's sharkskin swimsuits for enhanced aquatic performance.
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4. Ocean's Ultimate Dental Plan

Sharks must have one killer dental plan: they can have over 300 teeth in their jaws, constantly being replaced, resulting in over 50,000 teeth throughout their lives - keeping those chompers in tip-top shape for their role as the ocean's ultimate predator.
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5. Cookiecutter Shark: Nature's Cookie Cutter

Who needs a cookie cutter when you've got a cookiecutter shark on hand? These sneaky underwater bakers are experts at carving perfectly oval-shaped "cookies" from their unsuspecting prey: This unique feeding mechanism, with their robust lower jaws and dignathic heterodonty teeth, allows them to take neat, symmetrical bites out of marine mammals, fishes, and squids. Researchers even use the distinct bite marks on their prey to track the movements of these laser-guided cookie culinary masters and their swimming snack bars!
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6. Light-up Shark Party

It's not just aspiring Instagram influencers that know how to light up the night: Among cartilaginous fishes, only sharks can emit light! Bioluminescence is present in a mere three shark families: Dalatiidae, Somniosidae, and Etmopteridae, amounting to just 62 species out of more than 550 – a scintillatingly exclusive club in the shark world.
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7. Jaws of History

Before jaw-dropping performances were a thing, life on Earth took a bite out of history: The first jawed vertebrates, placoderms and Acanthodii or spiny sharks, evolved during the late Ordovician period, around 530 million years ago, leading to what's now known as the "Age of Fishes" during the Devonian period and paving the way for some seriously diverse fishy descendants.
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8. Megalodon's Mega Size

Hold onto your swim trunks: we're going to need a bigger boat! Megalodon, the school bus-crunching, monster shark of yesteryear, might have been even more mega in size than we first thought: New equations based on tooth widths now suggest the colossal swimmer may have measured an astonishing 65 feet in length, shedding thousands of teeth throughout its lifetime. The durable enamel of these gnashers, the only remaining evidence of the mighty megalodon, allows paleontologists to sink their own teeth into a more accurate estimation of the gargantuan shark's size.
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9. Meet "Bruce" the Movie Shark

You know what they say: a shark by any other name would still smell as fishy! Well, the fearsome Great White from the movie "Jaws" actually went nameless on-screen, but the beloved animatronic predator had a name, all thanks to the crew's little inside joke: The shark was christened "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer. Variations of the mechanical superstar were crafted for sequels, with the original "Bruce" eventually ending up in a junkyard, forever immortalized as "Junkyard Bruce."
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