By Amanda Sansone and Michael Yoshida George Washington is on the $1 bill; he’s got a monument named after him in our nation’s capital; a state in the Pacific Northwest that bears his moniker, and he chopped down that cherry tree and told his father he “could not tell a lie.” Well, that “fact” about the cherry tree is actually a lie. One of Washington’s first biographers invented the story after Washington’s death, according to the website of Ge…