Songs Appear in Playlists -randomly

I have a large library- over 5,000 tracks. Lately, I've noticed that iTunes is displaying large numbers of songs in some of my playlists that I did not put in that playlist. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why it chooses particular titles to "add" to a list.
Can anyone help?

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