How can the earth be at a 23.5° angle if it’s also close to a perfect sphere?

Question

How can there be an angle if earth is a sphere. A perfect ball doesn’t have a north does it.

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Answer 1

Take a close-to-perfect-sphere.

Stick a wire through it from the bottom to the top.

Now tilt that wire roughly 23 degrees, such that the close-to-perfect-sphere is also tilted.

The sphere-ness of the Earth has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it’s tilted at an angle.