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THE RAIN MAN DIED TODAY (58)
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For those who have seen the movie "The Rain Man" with Tom Cruise and Dennis Hoffman, the man who inspired Hoffman's character died. The movie was quite dramatized.
The real man's name was Kim Peek and I actually met him a few years ago. He was able to recall amazing dates and places like they were nothing.
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For those who have seen the movie "The Rain Man" with Tom Cruise and Dennis Hoffman, the man who inspired Hoffman's character died. The movie was quite dramatized.
The real man's name was Kim Peek and I actually met him a few years ago. He was able to recall amazing dates and places like they were nothing.
That saddens me greatly. I always thought Kim Peek was so cool.
Also, I started laughing inappropriately when the voiceover in the video said "Total Recall."
Also, I started laughing inappropriately when the voiceover in the video said "Total Recall."
myersguy
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Kim Peek, I'm very happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but, Michael Jackson's death was one of the best deaths of all time.
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Kim Peek, I'm very happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but, Michael Jackson's death was one of the best deaths of all time.
Dude, that's not even fucking funny.
Orig
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Yeah you're a few months too late. And even then, it wouldn't have been that funny since the same shit was already pulled with Patrick Swayze. Really, just lower your head down in shame.
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Kim Peek, I'm very happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but, Michael Jackson's death was one of the best deaths of all time.
what
the FUCK
was that
Kaempfer
1932
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His reading technique consisted of reading the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye and in this way he could read two pages at time with a rate of about 8-10 seconds per page. He could recall the content of some 12,000 books from memory.
Holy Jesus, that's intense.
Apparently KSL doesn't allow you to link directly to a page. Weird. For anyone interested, just search Kim Peek at that KSL site, the story is the first result.
edit: All this makes me wonder what the human brain is capable of. They think his ability to memorize stuff was a result of neuron connections forming in different parts of the brain because they didn't form in the right place the first time (to put it as basically as possible), which is pretty amazing. Like, I can recall... .5% of what this guy can recall, just because some neurons formed in a different part of the brain? That is incredible!
Actually it seems to be a bug in the bbcode parser, Kaempfer. Our links are the same. People just need to copy/paste.
My favorite story was the one about the Gettysburg Address.
"In one of his talks he answered a question about Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by responding, "Will's house, 227 North West Front Street. But he stayed there only one night-he gave the speech the next day." Kim intended no joke, but when his questioner laughed, he saw the point; since then, he has purposely recycled the story with humorous intent and effect."
"In one of his talks he answered a question about Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by responding, "Will's house, 227 North West Front Street. But he stayed there only one night-he gave the speech the next day." Kim intended no joke, but when his questioner laughed, he saw the point; since then, he has purposely recycled the story with humorous intent and effect."
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