Fun Fact Friday (#26)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:

1. Tennis was first played with bare hands.

2. Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.

3. Some pirates used earrings because they thought that wearing them would improve or even cure bad eyesight.

4. The number or hash-tag symbol, #, is known as an octothorp.

5. A single strand of spaghetti is called spaghetto