Yes, the recent Democratic debate was intense, enlightening, vicious, yadda, yadda, yadda. Jim, Bernie, Hilary, Martin, Lincoln — you all looked beautiful, but the real star of the show was our lovely moderator, Anderson Cooper. Let’s be real, were any of us really looking at anyone else? Honestly, if they wanted the focus to be on the politics, they should have chosen someone else to ask the questions...

Since the debate viewing kept interrupting shots of Anderson by panning at those other people (smh), we weren’t able to fully appreciate all his glory.

Please enjoy (uninterruptedly) the perfection that is Anderson Cooper, with some facts in between.

1. His brown hair turned gray when he was 20 — he now refers to the color as “salt-and-pepper.”

Whatever you say, you silver fox.

2. He has fantasized about styling his hair into a Mm

Again, whatever you say.

3. He studied Political Science and International Relations at Yale University.

It’s fine, babe. Yale’s almost just as good as Cornell.

4. He interned for the CIA

"There was a flyer for the CIA in my college career counseling office, and I applied for a summer job. I was a political science major and was interested in serving my country. I know the CIA may sound more exotic and mysterious, but it was actually pretty bureaucratic and mundane, at least the little bit that I saw of it. By the end of the second summer, I realized it was not a place I wanted to work after college," he wrote on his blog.

Mhmm.

5. At the University of Hanoi, he studied the Vietnamese language for a year.

Tôi yêu bạn [I love you].

6. He is the son of heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, and the great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping and railroad magnate and leader of one of the wealthiest and most respected families in New York.

-insert money eyes emoji-

7. He was photographed for an issue of "Harper's Bazaar" as a baby.

Flawless even as a baby.

8. As an adolescent, he modeled for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Macy's.

Yum.

9. He has no formal education in journalism.

Oh bae, only makes you greater.

10. Regardless, he only reports the truth.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11. At age 17, after graduating high school a semester early, he traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip."

So badass.

12. He contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya.

#Survivor.

13. He published a memoir in 2006, "Dispatches from the Edge," about his time in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq, and Louisiana.

Oooh, a published man.

14. Some of the proceeds from the book sales are donated to charity.

What. A. Gem.

15. Cooper has been dating Benjamin Maisani since 2009.

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."

Darn.

16. Anderson Cooper's net worth is $100 million.

Hot damn.

OMG. It's so teeny tiny.

Words of advice: save this one on your desktop for a rough day. Anderson Coops and a small animal can help you through the darkest of times.