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It was 37 summers ago that we all learned it wasn’t safe to go back in the water. This week in 1975, a fledgling director named Steve Spielberg waited anxiously to see just how badly his sure-to-be-disastrous shark movie was going to tank at the box office. After all, he had a mechanical shark that never worked, a lead actor who drunkenly picked on his co-stars, and a water-logged flail of a shoot. And yet, here we are, 37 years later, celebrating one of the greatest summer movies of all time. In honor of "Jaws" week, here are some things you might not have already heard about the legendary ...