Did you know that Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid?

That’s right, the Cookie Monster from the beloved show Sesame Street is named Sid. In a 2004 episode of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster himself revealed in a song that before he started eating cookies, his real name was Sid. Plus, on the Sesame Street Twitter feed in 2010, Cookie Monster tweeted “Me wasn’t born with name ‘Cookie Monster’. It just nickname dat stuck.”