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by jgeralnik 5006 days ago
None of the other posts on the blog have a number at the end of them.
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It only does it when it needs to disambiguate between posts with the same "slug" (i.e. URL-friendly name). My guess is that in their drafts, there are two posts with the same slug, so WordPress added the -3 to disambiguate.