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The Founding of Mensa

In 1946, a chance encounter between two men launched the high IQ club, Mensa. The society's archivist Ian Fergus spoke to Witness about those early days.

In 1946, Roland Berrill and Lancelot Ware were travelling on a train when they sparked up a conversation about intelligence testing. That chance encounter sparked the high IQ club, Mensa. Rachael Gillman speaks to the society's archivist Ian Fergus about those early days.

(Photo: A computer generated image of the human head and brain. Credit: Getty Images)

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