Simple page TIFF pictures generate multi-page thumbnails. See for example:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norway_-_The_land_of_the_midnight_sun.tif
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franziska_Moellinger_GA_II_46_0_prospectus.tif
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CH-NB_-_Hirslanden_bei_Z%C3%BCrich,_%28heute_eingemeindet%29_-_Collection_Gugelmann_-_GS-GUGE-W%C3%9CEST-C-4.tif
I guess the problem is that some metadata are not well parsed by libtiff and this is a kind of side effect.