It’s not so bad that others don’t know history, it’s those same others who think you’re some kind of a freak when YOU do.
In a class on religions the role of church and state, and how they have comibned and evolved over the centuries was gone over. So Henry VIII of England got a mention, for casting off the authority of the Pope over the English church. Someone mentioned “all those wives of his he killed” and I said “Only two of them actually” I could name them all, in order, and their various marital fates, and that same person acted as if it were a parlor trick game “Oh, all those details, I never try to remember stuff like that.”