Multiple Copies of Disk Utility

I have three copies of Disk Utility in the Utilities Folder
Disk Utility, Disk Utility Copy, and Disk Utility Copy 1
All three copies are dated on the same day. Sometimes redundancy is a good thing but I don’t think that it is in this case.
How did this happen and more importantly, can I delete the two copies without causing some great evil to occur in my mac mini?
Thanks in advance.

Somehow you duplicated the application. You can just drag the duplicates to the trash and empty it.

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