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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

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Bill Nye
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 27
Actor
Educator
Engineer
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Washington
District of Columbia
William S. Nye
William Sanford Nye
William Sanford Bill Nye
William Sanford “Bill” Nye
The Science Guy
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