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Is 8,290 nails as long as General Tom Thumb?

It's about 500 times as tall as General Tom Thumb
The height of General Tom Thumb is about 16 nails.
(a.k.a. Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) (circus performer; height at death)
General Tom Thumb was an LP with a height (at his death) of 16 nails. Thumb stopped growing at 11 nails when he was five years old, but resumed growth in his teens which continued through the remainder of his life.
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