This year, the Azerbaijani selection method was allowing newcomers to compete by singing old songs (an ESC song, an Azerbaijani song and a non-ESC foreign song).

In the end, they could not decide between the singer with the most talent and the girl whose mother paid the most, so they decided to make them a duo.

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Azerbaijan has hair. Lots of it. Well their fans do.
It's also considered the Joan Crawford of participating countries in such that they will scratch the eyeballs out of anyone who tries to outdo them.

In other developments, Azerbaijan's national tongue recently reached so far deep up Turkey's bum that it was able to determine that Turkey has polyps.

Random facts:
Capital: Ankara
National bird: the monobrow robin
National flower: the monobrow rose
Main export: scented lipstick
Average temperature: 23C
Average temperature when discussing Armenia: 48C