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Additionally, obsessives can view Quint’s harpoon gun and original design specifications for the mechanical sharks built to terrorize Martha’s Vineyard in 1974.

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They got their name because they were the “right” whales to harpoon — their bodies floated for easy recovery after they were killed.

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But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.

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Not believing him, the salesman behind the counter becomes the sole fatality in a freak harpoon gun accident that’s much more disgusting than I’m giving it credit for.

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Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

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