A two-year-old child has become the youngest boy to join Mensa - the society for the brainiest two per cent of people in the world.
Adam Kirby isn't just smarter than his playmates, instead he is a whole lot brighter than David Cameron and Barack Obama too, the Daily Express reported.
In an IQ test, he scored 141, bettering the Prime Minister and US President by a full 10 points.
The toddler- who was invited to join the elite group after demonstrating an ability to read Shakespeare and understand Japanese, Spanish and French- stunned his parents by spelling 100 words.
Parents, Dean and Kerry-Ann Kirby, were also left amazed after their son mastered both his times tables and the periodic table of chemical elements.
Adam's IQ of 141 - just four shy of the Genius category - compares with the average Briton's score of 100.
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