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Marriage, as a formal institution, is just a few thousand years old – but a brief moment in humans' roughly 300,000-year history…

The earliest recorded evidence of a formal marriage ceremony dates to around 2350 BC in Mesopotamia – however, it had little to do with love or religion.
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Famed for falling from trees, having imbibed too much fermented fruit, the loveable kererū is undoubtedly New Zealand’s original drunk. Our human history of alcohol, however, is a relatively brief one.
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