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Plank, based on a dictionary definition, refers to a piece of wood usually elongated and varies in thickness. A plank is usually used in industrial construction serving as walls, floors and ceilings of houses and buildings. But in most recent web-based phenomena, the humble piece of wood takes center stage as it becomes a viral bandwagon movement that caused millions of people around the world to lie down, face down in the most unsuspecting places one could imagine. The plank, in popular culture has been extended to planking, a verb or a gerund that requires a person or group to be photographed face down on the floor or anywhere or anything their imagination might take them.
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