I don't know how much rice you eat, but my experience has been that 1 rice cup cooks enough rice for a modest serving for 2 adults - in our household at least.
There's also the Calculus and the primacy dispute between Leibnitz and Newton. The dispute itself isn't that interesting, but that something so complicated was created in the background of natural philosophy by two different people.
(I've recently read The Baroque Cycle again, does it show?)
1. Please enter the text “foo bar.”
and
2. Please enter the text “foo bar”.
The first is normal American practice, but suggests incorrectly that the period (.) should be input.
Technical writing should be accurate - meaning all quotes should be a true representation that is not subject to style whimsy.