As eBay sees a rise in purchases of sheds we asked them to come up with ten facts that we might not have known about these handy additions to any garden.
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- The word 'shed' has the same origin as 'shade'. In Anglo-Saxon times a 'scead' was a place of rest in a shady place
- Rudyard Kipling, Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl all wrote in their sheds. A shed Benjamin Britten owned is now a Grade 2 listed building
- In ancient Egypt, there was a god named Shed who was god of danger, deadly animals and illness
- In 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, to handle post for the army the Post Office put up a wooden structure in Regent's Park, which has been described as "the world's largest shed"
- The most famous piece of art of a garden shed was created by sculptor Cornelia Parker when in 1991 she blew up a shed and used it's shrapnel to create her piece "Cold, Dark Matter: An Exploded View"
- Online marketplace eBay.co.uk sells over 1,700 sheds and shed related products every day
- To 'woodshed' or 'shed' in jazz jargon is to 'shut oneself up, away from the world, and practice long and hard'
- Somebody who works in a shed is said to participate in 'shed working', and is affectionately known as a 'sheddie'
- 50 Sheds of Grey - a parody written by Colin Grey and tells the story of a man torn between his wife's sexual adventurism and spending time in his beloved shed - outsold 50 Shades of Grey
- In 1994, David Hahn, a 17-year-old American scout, came up with a novel way to earn a merit badge in Atomic Energy. He tried to build a miniature nuclear reactor in his mother's garden shed in a Detroit suburb
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