Rendering of markdown files - Numbered lists

I have a markdown file with text in paragraph form that I have wrapped to 80 characters in vim. This causes a single line in the middle of the file to start with the last word of a sentence, which happens to be 2013.

The file is rendered in gitlab as having a numbered list in the middle of the paragraph when in fact there is not.

When I convert this file to .html with pandoc I get the expected paragraph text; it only starts a numbered list if there is a second hard return before the number followed by a period.