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The New York Times has a fascinating obituary on Kim Peek, the man who was Dustin Hoffman's inspiration for Rain Man's character Raymond Babbitt. Some of his powers were absolutely uncanny: • He could read two facing pages simultaneously, one with each eye. • With that ability, he read 12,000 [...]