A fact from Cotton production in China appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that cotton, which is called mian or mumian in Chinese, was first produced in China from an area now known as Yunnan, some time around 200 BC?
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