Current Events > Kim Peek was such an amazing human being (inspiration for Rain Man)

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Josiah_Is_Back
03/20/21 9:51:46 PM
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He was a megasavant who lacked a corpus callosum, which evidently allowed his brain to process information without filtering it, the latter being something a normal brain would do. He could read two pages simultaneously, retaining 98% of what he read. Knew every ZIP code, highway, area code in the United States; every leader of every country; every sports stat, could immediately tell you what day of the week any particular date fell on, anything you can possibly imagine. He was a literal human Google.

Dustin Hoffman met him in order to learn more about his character in Rain Man, and said to Kim "I may be the star, but you are the Heavens."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54aLapMed1Q&ab_channel=BoBalderson

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Slayer_22
03/22/21 7:16:59 AM
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I always hear Rain Man is good but I've never seen it. What sorta movie is it?
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