foot‧note /ˈfʊtnəʊt $ -noʊt/ noun [countable]

1. a note at the bottom of the page in a book, which gives more information about something

2. a piece of additional information that is not very important but is interesting or helps you understand something
footnote to
There was an interesting footnote to the story.

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