A two-year-old has become the youngest member of British Mensa after taking an intelligence test that ranked him smarter than Barack Obama and David Cameron.
While most toddlers are busy learning to walk and scribbling on walls, child prodigy Adam Kirby enjoys reading Shakespeare, learning Japanese, Spanish and French, and even potty-trained himself.
Adam, from Mitcham, south London, took the Stanford-Binet IQ test and scored 141, 10 points higher that two of the most powerful world leaders and four points short of Genius level, despite not even being able to speak in full sentences yet.
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The toddler’s parents Dean, 33, and Kerry-Ann, 31, say they realised their son was different when he’d potty-trained himself after reading a book on the subject aged just one.
MENSA: THE WORLD'S BIGGEST GENIUS CLUB
Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer.
The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top two per cent of the population.
Albert Einstein apparently had an IQ of 160, while former US presidents Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Clinton also racked up very high IQs - mustering 128, 160 and 137 respectively.
Napoleon Bonaparte scored 145 and Sigmund Freud had a score of 156.
There are currently more than 1,000 members of Mensa aged under 18.
Children under the age of 10-and-a-half can join Mensa by submitting prior evidence of their IQ score being in the top two per cent.
Adults and children over the age of 10-and-a-half, take the Mensa Supervised IQ Test.
The youngest person to ever join British Mensa was Elise Tan Roberts in 2009 aged 2 years and four months.
At 29 months, Adam is able to spell 100 words, has conquered most of his times tables up to 10, has learnt his periodic table, and even mastered a world map puzzle designed for adults. Read more:
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