Found a wonderful website and a book — Motion Mountain. The book explores the many wonders of everyday life:

Using hundreds of stories, pictures, films, tables and puzzles, five volumes tell about sport, raindrops and animal life (mechanics, gravity and heat), about moving empty space and the sky at night (relativity and the structure of the universe), about lightning, lasers and nerves (electricity, optics, the brain, language and truth), and about colours, pleasure and the stars (quantum physics, nuclear physics and radioactivity). A sixth volume tells about the search for a final, unified theory of physics.

Surprisingly, I’ve stumbled upon it by accident and have never seen it recommended anywhere on the mainstream internet.

Also from the website:

Truthfulness — combined with politeness — make the world a better place.