In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.
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