Top 7 Sheffield Stories That Sound Completely Impossible

Seven Sheffield stories that seem improbable until the historical record catches up with them.

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Penicillin successfully used therapeutically in Sheffield in 1930

Sheffield FC founded before modern football rules

The Youdan Cup before the FA Cup

Stainless steel emerging from a gun-barrel problem

More than 160 water-powered industrial sites

The Great Sheffield Flood

The Benty Grange helmet

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