Knowing facts is always helpful.
With the exception of the higher mathematics and physics I read on Everything, I can know virtually all of what I read, practically as soon as I read it. It can go just as easily.
And not all of it do I want to know.
But the understanding of what people say, what they feel, what they think--this is more of what I want. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.
It is the hermeneutics of Everything I am after.