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A keen-eyed immigrant, a candy mogul, and two pasta-making brothers reinvent rice for America's kitchens by making it faster, easier and impossible to resist, but it'll take a massive global conflict, and a battle of innovations, to turn rice into riches.

A beverage giant is challenged for dominance by two upstart companies from Brooklyn to revolutionize the beverage market and transform iced tea from a regional drink to a multi-billion-dollar American staple.

When being young meant testing the limits of what our bodies could survive; from launching our bikes off homemade ramps and playing chicken in traffic, to using dangerous construction sites as our playground, childhood adventure was often intertwined with how far you were willing to go--and the consequences that came with it; armed with cherry bombs, slingshots, and more confidence than caution, w

Will this former champion have what it takes to beat the judges?

Broc guides his sister Alicia on her first bear hunt in 20 years; Connor and Jen push their sled teams on a 20-mile overnight expedition across a frozen lake; Kie and Dave tackle a giant poplar tree looming over their homestead; and Rob heads deep into the frozen wilderness to trap beaver and rabbit.

A keen-eyed immigrant, a candy mogul, and two pasta-making brothers reinvent rice for America's kitchens by making it faster, easier and impossible to resist, but it'll take a massive global conflict, and a battle of innovations, to turn rice into riches.

Will this former champion have what it takes to beat the judges?

Broc guides his sister Alicia on her first bear hunt in 20 years; Connor and Jen push their sled teams on a 20-mile overnight expedition across a frozen lake; Kie and Dave tackle a giant poplar tree looming over their homestead; and Rob heads deep into the frozen wilderness to trap beaver and rabbit.

A young machinist in England invents one of the world's most successful toys when he creates a toy car small enough to fit inside a matchbox for his daughter to take to school; Elliot Handler creates one of the biggest toy rivalries in history.

Milton Bradley creates one of America's first board games, but the Parker brothers threaten Bradley's reign.

A pair of garage tinkerers, a copier company's secret lab, and a college-dropout programmer spark a decades-long battle for the future of computing - shrinking the computer from a room-sized machine to the device billions carry every day.

The 4077th suffers a long, sleepless night during a scorching heat wave.

Hawkeye builds a monument to 4077th patients.

A rare Diamond T truck build has Mike and his crew scrambling to keep up with their client's demands; Avery battles a hornet's nest, his mother and his own impending sense of doom as auction day arrives.

The team tracks down several historic vehicles in the remote region of Rainy River, in Northwestern Ontario; as Steve and Lee compete with Dave, Matt and Jess hit the skies in search of a historic railway truck to assist a local museum.

A recurring mine marker points the team east to neighboring Harrison Lake as leads and legend line up; clues found in a 1950s article by an investigative reporter place a lost Spanish gold mine directly on Slumach's path.

A rare Diamond T truck build has Mike and his crew scrambling to keep up with their client's demands; Avery battles a hornet's nest, his mother and his own impending sense of doom as auction day arrives.

The team tracks down several historic vehicles in the remote region of Rainy River, in Northwestern Ontario; as Steve and Lee compete with Dave, Matt and Jess hit the skies in search of a historic railway truck to assist a local museum.

A traveler isn't blowing smoke when it comes to declaring her cigarettes.

A South American surfer's vague travel plans make waves with CBP.

Hawkeye gives up jokes while Charles schemes to give up Korea.

B.J. braces for a wedding anniversary without Peg as Charles prepares for front-line action.

How did a pet pig spring into action to save its owner's life? Which mysterious spirits became the unlikely heroes that turned the tide for a doomed flight? And what shocking move did a carjacker make to rescue a baby trapped in a scorching car? These are the wild, unexpected stories of heroes you'd never see coming.

Throughout history, governments have carried out top-secret projects that defy belief—from experimental aircraft and staged illusions to covert experiments that crossed ethical boundaries; hidden from the public and revealed only years later, these operations raise a chilling question: if these programs were real... what else might still be happening in secret today?

From strange afflictions to infections that ravage populations, it's frightening to think that one of us can contract dangerous and often deadly diseases.

Reports of mysterious, hairy creatures have surfaced around the world for centuries; from Bigfoot in North America to the Himalayan Yeti and Australia's Yowie; Tony Harris and his team investigate eyewitness encounters and alleged evidence to uncover whether these elusive beings are more than myth.

Hawkeye gives up jokes while Charles schemes to give up Korea.

B.J. braces for a wedding anniversary without Peg as Charles prepares for front-line action.

Throughout history, governments have carried out top-secret projects that defy belief—from experimental aircraft and staged illusions to covert experiments that crossed ethical boundaries; hidden from the public and revealed only years later, these operations raise a chilling question: if these programs were real... what else might still be happening in secret today?

Host Giorgio Tsoukalos examines series archives to investigate theories of historical extraterrestrial contact; the broadcast reviews aerial geoglyphs, crop circles and mathematical codes embedded in ancient global architecture to assess claims of early astronomical communication.

How did a pet pig spring into action to save its owner's life? Which mysterious spirits became the unlikely heroes that turned the tide for a doomed flight? And what shocking move did a carjacker make to rescue a baby trapped in a scorching car? These are the wild, unexpected stories of heroes you'd never see coming.

For centuries, certain objects have been deemed to heal the sick, summon spirits, legitimize kings, curse their owners, and even alter the fate of nations; do these artifacts truly possess supernatural power, or is their force created by human belief?

Some deals are made to announce headlines, while others are steered in the shadows; when the CIA wants to take out the Iraqi Prime Minister, they turn to a 20-year-old law student named Saddam Hussein, while in Guatemala, a banana company colludes with the CIA to topple the country's leader to protect its profits; decades later in Ukraine, a top-secret unit of CIA operatives thwarts Russia's invas

The team shoots bolts of electricity in the Bubble, leading to shocking new clues surrounding the Blob.

For centuries, certain objects have been deemed to heal the sick, summon spirits, legitimize kings, curse their owners, and even alter the fate of nations; do these artifacts truly possess supernatural power, or is their force created by human belief?