Recommend me a big book full of general knowledge on a lot of different subjects for someone who doesn’t speak English natively and has had limited schooling

I know someone's gonna be clever and say an encyclopedia, but what I'm looking for is one of those cool coffee table books that you can open up and just read about random stuff in and learn about science, history, the world.

This is for a guy who works for me and his family. He's bright but lives in a country with really limited education options. He's not big on higher education, but he loves to learn new facts and random things about the world.

Just looking to get something to indulge his curiosity a bit.

I remember we always had books like that when I was growing up, but I just can't remember the titles of any of them.