diff --git a/preserves.md b/preserves.md
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@@ -1454,3 +1454,6 @@ link escape"; it is not a printable ASCII character, and is disallowed
 in the textual Preserves grammar; and it is also mnemonic for "version
 0", since it is the Preserves binary encoding of the small integer
 zero.))
+
+<!-- Heading to visually offset the footnotes from the main document: -->
+## Notes