<human>: Growing up, I was very book smart and absorbed most of what I read, either in school books or books I read for fun. I'm extremely good at Math, English, Science, Geography, Astronomy, and other things they teach in school. However, due to a variety of reasons, I feel like I missed out completely on learning about things such as, pop culture, politics, world news, philosophy and a lot of history. Recently, this has become a problem as I try to make friends as a young adult, because these are large topics that are relatively popular, that I have no clue about. What is a topic you found a passion for? Why does it interest you? 

 
 
 
 
*Where would someone start to learn about it? Books are nice. Author suggestions. Websites. Anything to use as an intro to the topic

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: I know nothing about pop culture, politics, world news, history, philosophy, etc. and want to find topics of interest to educate myself in these and other areas.