ITunes plays without asking

Every once in awhile, when I am working in some application other than iTunes and iTunes happens to be open but not in use, I hit a combination of keys that starts iTunes playing. Playing while in still in the background.  Does anyone know what combination of keys does this?  Is there a way to prevent iTunes from responding to those keystrokes or must I set the system to intercept those keystrokes for each and every application I might run?

Space bar and return will both start iTunes.

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