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What can have happened is the original picture had a large thumbnail (the thumbnail is actually a JPEG-in-the-JPEG in the metadata) and that it was scaled down but with the metadata left in(*) , so now the thumbnail is bigger than the original. You can extract metadata with some EXIF-handling utilities, for instance with exiftool
exiftool -b -PreviewImage -w ...
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