Self-education is great, really. And yeah, French Revolution was crazy. But extremely interesting. I once took a drive from Paris down to the Riviera to follow the path of the Revolution.
Basically stopped by locations as the 'news' got to each town, and figured out what happened historically when the French at the time learned what was happening in Paris.
Something just dawned on me. You know how we went from two digit years to four digit years because of the Y2K bug? In like 9K years we'll have to go to 5 digit years to combat the problem again