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The "Everybody had one" caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they've only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.
Yeah, this video is poorly researched clickbait.
Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.
Patently
Thanks, I'm dyslexic and that's where the spell check got me.
Are you interpreting it literally? It's a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it's just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.
Whether it actually was common though, I don't know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.
"Everybody had one" is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is a very simple literal claim, which also happens to be a flat out lie.
It's a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.