I prefer talking about things that are important to me. It does not matter to me who hit the most homeruns in the 1980s and I can't well imagine making a connection talking about it.
OK so in your case replace baseball with pokemon or anime or whatever your thing is.
If my thing is pokemon or anime, then I want to know the right answer, and it is not a meaningless thing anymore!
The "ultimately the answer wasn't important" part of your comment mystifies me. If the answer is not important, why even talk about it?
This was especially great for ultimately meaningless things like who hit the most homeruns in the 1980's. I could Google it, or me and a few friends could brainstorm it in conversation and agree on a set of facts, hammer out disagreements on some other details based on what we remember from our baseball card collections and going to games as a kid, which then leads to more conversation about other things and on and on. Ultimately the answer wasn't important but the connection you make talking as humans is what matters.