Given that one in six couples experience infertility and that 7.4 million reproductive age women have sought fertility advice, it is no surprise that there are a number of myths circling the biosphere about the process of improving one’s chance to get pregnant. 

Requiring a slightly cooler than core body temperature, the vital processes of sperm creation and storage drove Mother Nature to an inelegant solution: Hanging the primate testes between the legs, just outside the body.

When Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President to President John F. Kennedy in 1962, surely her voice sent his skin tingling. The sound of a woman’s voice as she sings has that power — it’s sensuous, sultry, powerful, and soft. But a woman doesn’t need to be singing to have that effect on men, according to a new study. All they have to do is speak to a guy at the right time of the month.

As you probably know, the female praying mantis will sometimes bite her mate’s head off. It’s not something that the insects make a habit of, exactly — they probably only do it when a male is particularly aggressive, or when the female really needs a nutrient boost in order to successfully lay her eggs.

The 80s were an awesome decade. I can speak from experience. I wore jelly sandals, pegged jeans, and LOTS of neon. I watched the Gummi Bears on Saturday mornings, ate Count Chocula for breakfast, and jumped on my Pogo Ball during recess.

And when my three friends also named Lindsay and I got together we played Atari, My Little Pony, and Transformers. So what else did we do when we weren’t baking our Shrinky Dinks or slapping Colorforms onto pieces of cardboard? We thought up names for our future children, of course. Here are the top 10 baby names we considered in the 80s:

Talk about fireworks in the bedroom.

When a sperm cell fuses with an egg, it triggers the sudden release of zinc atoms from the egg’s surface. That’s been known since 2011. Now, for the first time ever, scientists have observed these “sparks” in action and figured out where they come from.

Ambrose Paré was a surgeon and battlefield doctor to four French kings. He was a pioneer in the fields of pathology and battlefield medicine, but he also gave really terrible advice to pregnant women. Here are 10 tips for pregnant women from Ambrose Pare’s 16th century work, “On Monsters and Marvels.”

Is it coincidence? Science would probably say, “Absolutely!” While there is no proof that these stories of miracles brought forth of folklore have any truth to them, it never hurts to try.

More than 4.5 million couples experience infertility each year. There have been millions upon millions of couples that have had to cope with infertility throughout the ages. Many of these couples are famous, historical figures.