Sasha Velour is the gender-bending, queer-space-creating performer of the future. The season 9 RuPaul's Drag Race winner has done a lot for the LGBTQ community after being crowned, and she truly taught us all how to "be the strange you wish to see in the world."

But did you also know that she's a trained opera singer, has an MFA, was a Fulbright Scholar, and basically can do anything and everything?! Neither did we, until now.

Here are 11 things you didn't know about Sasha Velour (plus some seriously jaw-dropping looks)...