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TIL that Westminster Abbey has a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is part of a series on 20th Century martyrs, and includes Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, and Oscar Romeo of El Salvador. They were designed to fill ten Gothic niches during a renovation.

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