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More trivia:

110 volts @ 60 hz is standard here in the US.

Why?

Because, the street lights at the time worked best at that voltage and they stopped flickering at 60 hz.

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Wanna know why we bumped up to 115v, and now 120v? It's so we can make the street lights brighter without replacing all the bulbs.

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I have heard that 60 hz is also induces theta waves in our brain, a dream-state which make us more suggestible to the television ads broadcast at this frequency.

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Then there's the whole tuning system of music being changed from around 432 hz to 440 hz