Some do, some don't

I find that many people don't like history.  If I ever follow up on that sentiment, I usually find that the people don't know how to organize history, therefore they find it hard to understand.  At the base of organizing history is to know chronology.  Timelines are basic.  Those who can learn to put events on a timeline usually know how to categorize in other ways to.  For example, if one can put Sumer in ancient history (between 3500 and 2500 BCE), then it is also easy to know that there were three other civilizations that were similar under the category of River Valley Civilizations.   When learning the history of England, if you know that the Romans left England open around 450 ACE, then it is much easier to understand how the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes decided to inhabit the vacated lands, begin the Anglo-Saxon culture, and start the English language.  Pivotal dates are probably the next most helpful organizing method.  People don't know which came first, the Romans, the Greeks, or the Phoenicians.  Not knowing that doesn't really hurt anything in anyone's modern life, but it is evidence that probably the same person doesn't know if the Civil War happened before the Revolutionary War or World War I.  Which doesn't hurt, either, in the modern world, but they probably then can't tell you whether Roe vs. Wade happened before Brown vs. the Board of Educaton or The Affordable Health Care Act.

None of it matters in a person's daily life except that it is also an indicator of the organizational level. one has in general.  Of course, personality plays such a huge part of organizational ability, that at any given time there are more people who don't care a whole lot about organization as opposed to those who do.

Strangely there is some balance, a yin and yang, between those who can live in the moment, spontaneously, and those who need structure.  A word of caution is in order, however.  Those who get overwhelmed by life and meet their demise, more times than not, come from the camp of those who don't organize well in their minds.

Play the odds: If you start life not knowing chronology, it might become a rather random series of events, unconnected, and a little overwhelming.  That could spell u-n-d-e-r-d-o-g for a person and that's not a good position in life to be in.