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America’s Largest Underground Lake Is Hidden 140 Feet Below the Surface—Here’s How to Visit

While the lake is said to have been discovered in 1905 by a 13-year-old boy named Ben Sands, the surrounding caverns were used by the Cherokee, and 20,000-year-old jaguar tracks were also found there.
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CV History: The Salton Sea Has Gone From Massive Accident, to Resort Destination, to Pollution Threat, to Potential Lithium Bonanza

Early in 1905, the first of five floods surged down the diversionary canal, and attempts to close it became futile. By the ...