"I Cannot Tell A Lie: They Were Under My Bed."

Those of us who have sheepishly returned an overdue library book and paid the seventy cent fine can be a bit less embarassed now — because thanks to some recent record scrubbing by the New York Society Library, we found out we're in good company: George Washington has two overdue books. 

According to the story in the  Guardian:

The library's ledgers show that Washington took out the books on 5 October 1789, some five months into his presidency at a time when New York was still the capital. They...