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TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, covering an area from Fresno to Bakersfield at its maximum size. It steadily shrunk from the mid 1800s onward before eventually vanishing due to water diversion for crops. It occasionally reemerges in flood years.

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