Flea Facts

Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the Space Shuttle, experiencing forces of up to 100g during takeoff.

Many baby octopuses are about the size of a flea at birth, though their exact size varies by species, with some being even smaller.

The flea can jump 160 times its body length horizontally, which is like a human jumping the length of 2 football fields.

Flea grew up playing trumpet in Los Angeles. He has said his public school's music department kept him out of trouble as a kid. By 2001, Los Angeles had gutted school arts funding, so Flea opened a free music school in Silver Lake. 25 years later, it is still running. It grants scholarships for free lessons and instruments to families who cannot pay. He never forgot what music did for him.