ITunes - What's in the 'Other' Category?

After syncing my iPod from iTunes, I noticed that I now have *1.49 GB in the 'Other' category,* 5.41GB in 'Audio' category, 367.1 MB in 'Video' category and 152.5 MB 'Free'. Total capacity 7.41GB (8G nano).
I have no shows, pictures, podcasts,etc. All I have are songs and videos.
So, what's in the 'Other' category/folder, and why is it so large?
I do not remember ever explicitly putting anything in 'Other'.
How can I get delete stuff from it - or should I delete stuff from it (the 'Other' category/folder')?

I did a 'restore' and most of the 'other' category capacity went down (1.49GB -> 69.4MB),
thank goodness!!

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