Knowing little facts in a million different areas helps me contextualize and reason about new information, recognize patterns, discern signal/noise, and know wh

Knowing little facts in a million different areas helps me contextualize and reason about new information, recognize patterns, discern signal/noise, and know when something might be accurate or inaccurate. If something comes up once there’s a good chance it’ll come up again or plays a part in some pattern that will come up again. I’d also argue that most of the time if something as trivial as who was in some movie is already a part of the conversation, then it’s not further trivializing things to go down that rabbit hole vs the original. Obviously being a bad conversationalist or listener is bad, but it’s not necessarily just an itch to want to know things.