When stacking, items can duplicate. This can be proved by breaking a chest full of the same block, or dropping the same block too fast.
Here's a video so you can reproduce the glitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv0dX_yQSes
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I can confirm that this happens on several recent snapshots and pre-releases. It can be a simple as mining blocks (iron ore, obsidian) and allowing them to stack as loose items before picking them up. You will often get more blocks than you actually mined!
I made a short video, if this would be helpful? https://youtu.be/w3YtENyOZFk
Do you have an
/entitydata
command running in the background (see MC-115404)?