CLUE THAT HAS A DIFFERENT ANSWER DEPENDING ON WHETHER IT’S INTERPRETED BEFORE OR AFTER THE YEAR 1868 (?)

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Name of the current capital city of Japan comes from plastic toy, OK? (5)

TOKYO* or KYOTO*

i assume this is why the contest was created lmao

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9893 Name of the current capital city of Japan comes from plastic toy, OK? (5) TOKYO* or KYOTO*

i assume this is why the contest was created lmao
noneuclidean 6
9914 "First President with alive parents is extremely nurturing" - Observer Olivia, Northern Egypt (5) Pre-1868 parse:
Nurturing
Observer
Olivia
Northern
Egypt
NO ONE has been elected president whose parents were alive. (Also it's <1868, so there's no space in NOONE.)

Post-1868 parse:
nurturinG
observeR
oliviA
northerN
egypT
GRANT was elected in 1868.

Research began and ended with https://xkcd.com/1122/
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