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1. The first Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1956 in Switzerland. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Italy took part. Switzerland won.
2. Austria, Denmark, and the UK also wanted to compete, but they missed the entry deadline. They joined the following year.
3. In 1957, the Italian entry lasted 5 minutes and 9 seconds. As a result, the rules were changed and now entires cannot last longer than 3 minutes.
4. In 1969, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, and France finished in joint first place, because there was no tie-break proceedure in place.
5. In protest Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Portugal refused to take part the following year.
6. The current tie-break procedure is that if two songs get the same number of points, the song with votes from the highest number of countries wins.
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