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Timelapse: First day of the State Fair in 20 seconds

A record-setting crowd visited the 2009 Minnesota State Fair’s opening day Thursday.

A record-setting crowd visited the 2009 Minnesota State Fair’s opening day Thursday. Minnesota Public Radio captured a portion of those 114,439 people from a video camera setup near its stage at the Fair and sped up the time from opening to closing to make this 20-second video.