Kim Peek died in 2009, but by
this time he had perfectly memorized 12,000 books. He had become so good at
memorizing information that he could read two pages at a time using one eye for
each page. He is said to have had the best example of an eidetic
memory/photographic memory and he could recall 98% of everything that he ever
experienced in perfect detail. His story was the inspiration for the movie Rain
Man, although he believed using his abilities for things such as gambling to be
“unethical”.