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Salt lakes typically have rivers containing trace amounts of salt flowing into them but no rivers flowing out. That means the only way water can leave is through evaporation, but the salts get left behind and the salinity therefore builds up.
I learned this in Geography 101. Then I had a shower thought that the oceans of the world are just a giant salt lake.