Like us, they have chips or bacon in a bread cake.
The largest listed building in Europe, is Park Hill Flats. Listed to remind us how bad 70's architecture and social planning really was.
A passage between two houses is a jennel.
Real Madrid and Sheffield FC are the only two teams to be awarded the FIFA Order of Merit.
Sheffield hosted the world’s first football tournament (played under Sheffield Rules) – the Youdan Cup in Feb-March 1867, featuring 12 teams. The competition was won by local side Hallam at Bramall Lane. It preceded the FA cup by four years.
The Sheffield Rules was a code of football used between 1857 and 1877. They had a big influence on Football association rules, which later finally codified the game.
Sheffield Rules introduced the concept of corners, free kicks, heading the ball, and goal keepers.
Bramall Lane was opened in 1855 as a cricket ground.
Liquorice Allsorts have been made in sheffield for over 100 years
Toothpaste was invented in Sheffield, by Dr Sheffield. Presumably, if it had been invented anywhere else it would have been called "teeth" paste.
Sheffield holds the record for the longest continuously visible rainbow at 6hrs, 14th march 1994.
Sheffield is the largest city in Europe without an international airport
Jupiters largest moon, Ganymede, has the same area as Sheffield.
Sheffield has the largest percentage of hen pecked men in Europe.
Bramall Lane is the oldest major stadium in the world still to be hosting professional football matches, and is one of only two grounds (the other being the Oval) which has hosted England football internationals (five games prior to 1930), an England cricket test match in 1902 against Australia and an FA Cup Final ,it is also where the worlds first floodlit football match took place.
Sheffield is in the running for the world record for the most deflated ego's per square km.
In around 827 King Ecgbert of Mercia took the submission of the king of Northumbria and this event marked the start of England as a unified nation. The treaty was signed in Dore.