Excluding post thumbnail from the attachment.php when using wordpress gallery

So finally I managed to sort of fix it myself and wanted to share it if anyone finds it helpful.
not the best solution in the world but still..
just uploaded the image via the Media section and
not from within the post/page
and then used it in the post as a featured image which wasn’t uploaded directly from there, therefore, it wasn’t included in the gallery pictures loop.

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