What's the tangible benefit of reading a history book? What's the tangible benefit of learning about quantum physics, evolution theory or the history of the Fre

What's the tangible benefit of reading a history book? What's the tangible benefit of learning about quantum physics, evolution theory or the history of the French Revolution? My iPhone works anyway, the grocery store sells chicken anyway, and the latte at Starbucks won't taste any different. None of that directly changes by you learning more things. But it makes you a more well-rounded educated person, equipped to make better decisions impacting your own life and possibly society as a whole. And, frankly, to make sth out of you that's more than a monkey living merely to survive and procreate.