I have never changed my passcode and now I'm locked out.  Others had this?  Solutions?

I have an ipad air with a passcode that's never had the passcode changed.  Tonight I entered it as usual and it was repeatedly rejected, locked me out, etc.
I'm now going through the painful process of having to restore it (fun to do as you have to do it in recovery mode given turning find my phone off and you can't when passcode protected).
I'm concerned about why or how this happened in the first place so as to avoid it in the future.  Any ideas?
I am not jailbroken.  100% as from the mfg.  
Thanks.

Option 1
Force iPad into Recovery Mode. Follow step 1 to 6 very closely.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Note: You may have to repeat the above a few times.

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