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TIL when Uruguay's Luis Suárez was suspended for biting another player, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica called FIFA "sons of bitches" who meted out "fascist" treatments, while forgetting he was being filmed. Journalists then asked if they could publish his remark, to which he smiled and said yes

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