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It kinda made sense for a while. Remember we're looking at this from a modern lense.
240 is very divisible. It's similar to why we chose 360° for a circle, or 24 hours in a day.
It stopped making sense as more and more countries shifted to decimalisation, and machines made extremely quick+accurate division trivial and accessible.