George Washington never returned two books he checked out of the New York Society Library in 1789. The only library in New York at the time, now a subscription-based library on the Upper East Side that costs $175 a year to join, is still missing its copies of THE LAW OF NATIONS and Volume 12 of THE COMMONS DEBATES (transcripts from the British House of Commons) and no one knows where the missing books are.
Though a librarian insists to the Daily News that he will not collect, Washington is in line for about a $300,000 library fine if he wants to pick up that "1776" soundtrack he reserved.
(Thanks Henry for sending me this!)
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