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MATH FUNDI BREAKS SUM RECORD!

A 10-year-old British boy, Nadub Gill, broke the Guinness World Record for most multiplication and division questions correctly answered in a minute. During a competition on the maths site Times Tables Rock Stars, he answered 196 questions in one minute – that’s more than three correct answers per second! About 700 kids entered the competition.

12 YOUNGEST MEDALLIST

Twelve-year-old of Japan won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, making her the youngest medallist at the games in 85 years! Kokona participated in the skateboarding event. It was the first time the Olympics included skateboarding as an event. Sakura Yosozumi (19), also

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