Sam Sedgman discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Sam Sedgman is a bestselling children's author, confirmed nerd and enthusiastic ferroequinologist. Co-creator of the award-winning 'Adventures on Trains' and 'Isaac Turner Investigates' series, he writes fact-based mystery and adventure stories for the young and young at heart.

Before writing stories for children, Sam worked as a digital producer at the National Theatre, which meant nosing around backstage with a camera and a microphone, cajoling theatre makers into explaining how stories get made. Forever interested in piecing things together, Sam is a lifelong fan of puzzles, games and detective fiction, and once founded a company making murder mystery treasure hunts for adventurous Londoners. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

When he isn’t writing, Sam can usually be found admiring a handsome timepiece, watching Alfred Hitchcock movies, or explaining some weird fact to you. He lives in London, on top of a railway station. You can find out more at https://samsedgman.com/.

1. The decimalisation of time in the French Revolution https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Decimal_time/


2. Italians having a twelfth cardinal colour, Azzurro https://www.thoughtco.com/azzurro-2011518


3. The 1997 action movie The Peacemaker https://them0vieblog.com/2012/07/03/non-review-review-the-peacemaker/


4. Why Australia has so many camels https://eu.desertsun.com/story/life/home-garden/james-cornett/2017/01/27/many-camels-australian-desert/96999820/


5. The surprising impermanence of burial plots https://bannocksmemorials.co.uk/8-facts-about-graves-memorials-you-didnt-know-before-today/


6. Montreal's snow management system https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-montreal-takes-300-000-truckloads-of-snow-off-the-street-every-winter-1.5023619

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