Kim Peek, aka Rain Man, dies, definitely, definitely dies.

Kim Peek, the man who inspired the film Rain Man, died on saturday, december 9 of a heart attack. Peek was an autistic savant who was born without a corpus callosum, the tissue that divides the hemispheres of the brain, most likely resulting in his behavioral and intellectual peculiarities, as well as his astounding ability to retain 98 percent of what he read and heard. most of us idiot non-savants can only retain 45 percent.

“As both a child and adult, Peek’s favorite place was the library, where he devoured books at a confounding rate. At the time of his death, Peek is believed to have committed at least 9,000 books to memory. He could recite so many gigabytes of facts that people often called him Kim-puter. NASA made him the subject of MRI-based research.”

the article goes on to describe Peek’s touring circuit stating that he has “spoken to more than 64 million people and traveled nearly 3 million air miles,” which is actually pretty surprising because i didn’t realize that Qauntas flew to that many destinations. i’ll just put it in my notebook of Information My Paltry, Divided Brain Will Undoubtedly Not Retain.