I could rant about this for hours…
Seriously, stuff like “who was leader of x country 5 generations before any of us were born” is considered common knowledge everyone should know, but the most elementary things of how our world works are considered “nerd facts” nobody needs. No wonder science denialism is on the rise and environmental crises aren’t taken seriously. Something is very off in our education systems.
Playing Trivial Pursuit, I was once asked about the bodyguard of some politician who died before I was born. Like… How and more importantly why am I supposed to know that? (My “”“nature”“” question then was “Who invented the telephone?”)