Question: I just noticed a question that had two different numbered lists with different numbers but both were rendered as "1". Screen shot:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1MsGQ.png)

Is this supposed to be happening?

Answer: 
This is by design per the markdown spec. Those are two unconnected lists.

You can however do this

```
1. List Item

   or

2. List item

```

1. List Item

or
2. List item
Yes, it's an unfortunate trait of markdown. You can get around it by indenting each entire list item by 4 spaces however.

1. This is a multi-paragraph list item.

It has lots of teeny paragraphs.

But there is a way around it...
2. It's not ideal, but it gets the job done!
3. Ta da!

(found this out from the [markdown reference on daringfireball](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list))