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The thing so small it didn't even merit a footnoteuntil someone bet on it.

means Of so little importance that it barely deserves attention or effort.

from From Latin trivium, the place where three roads meeta public crossing where ordinary people swapped commonplace gossip, hence the unremarkable and everyday.

School rootsThe medieval trivium taught grammar, logic, rhetoric — the basics.
Math twistMathematicians use it for the obvious-yet-correct case.
PursuitTrivia became a hobby precisely by valuing the worthless.
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