When I was younger I loved reading Horrible Histories magazines and Wikipedia article rabbit holes about interesting time periods, important and controversial figures. Any non-fiction books you’d recommend?

I'm in my 30s and sick of doomscrolling and want to kinda reignite that joy of just learning about random things in a kinda broad strokes sort of way. I know nothing about so many things, but don't really want to crack open really long, deep, dry, dense history books that get lost the weeds of dates and fine details.

Any cool books about interesting events, important moments in history, iconic figures and the melting point of all those things that is digestible to guy who reads 1-2 books a year if he's lucky?