The other is language. I'm the sort of person who will be reading, see an interesting word, and wonder about its etymology, then go off on a research trip through the net reading about a single word.
I have a couple of favourite YouTube channels dealing with language. One is Name Explain in which the fellow takes a name of a country, an animal, a town, etc., and explains its derivation.
The other is NativLang. Here, the presenter deals with languages as a whole, language family trees, history of individual languages, and that sort of thing. Here are two videos I watched last night, both quite short, on the history of the Latin alphabet.
Check these channels out if you share my geekiness!
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