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TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.

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eobL TIL Peter Cetara forgot his own name when he first met Paul McCartney. He said to himself “I’m just gonna go up to him and tell him how much I like his music.” And he walked up to him and said “Hi Paul, my name is …” Fortunately McCartney replied “I know, you’re Peter Cetera, how are you mate?”
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