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Heather Pickstock & Charlie Duffield

Boy, 3, becomes UK's youngest accepted in MENSA and can count to 100 in six languages

A toddler has become one of the youngest people ever to become a member of MENSA, after he taught himself to read at the age of two.

Now four years old, Teddy Hobbs, began reading during the coronavirus lockdown.

Staggeringly, when he was only 26 months old, he was able to read a book fluently to his parents, Beth and Will.

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