GitHub satanically messing with Markdown - changes 666 to DCLXVI
Asked 07 September, 2021
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My GitHub repository has nothing but a readme in it. In this readme, locally I wrote this:

Factoids:
 - There are about six different ways to do everything in Forked.
 - There are actually six different ways to enter loops.
 - There are six directionals and six I/O commands.
 - 666. ha.

Emphasis on the last line. What GitHub decided to show was not 666.

dclxvi

DCLXVI is the Roman Numeral number for 666.

This really creeped me out. My local file and the raw file both show 666.

What is GitHub doing, and why is the indentation on the un-numbered list messed up? Is this an easter egg, or some satanic bug?

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