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TIL where the "Did a dingo eat your baby?" joke from The Rugrats Movie came from. Based on a real case, the Evil Angels film has a scene where the murder-accused mother says, "The dingo took my baby!" It gets misquoted in a bunch of shows as "a dingo ate my baby."

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