I looked through the bug tracker and didn’t see anything.
To reproduce (Win 7, 64 bit, Blender 2.72 Hash 95182d1)
Load factory settings (or not)
Add a monkey
Edit mode, remove doubles.
2 doubles will be removed
Can anyone confirm. 2.71 works fine.
It isn’t a bug, and it happens in 2.71 as well unless you have changed the merge distance. There are duplicate vertices on Suzanne. Part of her floating eye overlaps with the head mesh, bottom inner corner, as shown here.
Ok thanks, I must have had the threshold set differently on 2.71.
