Rain Man Died
Kim Peek — the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man — has passed away.
He was born in 1951 in Salt Lake City and doctors diagnosed him as severely mentally retarded and advised his parents to place him in an institution.
Yet he learned to read and could read eight books a day, committing large sections of text to memory. He could read two pages simultaneously, his left eye reading the left page and his right eye reading the right page.