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if i'm remembering correctly (and if not, you could always google it) it largely came about through labor laws preventing child labor and age for being drafted/military service, which were derived from when men were generally considered "done maturing" and fit for full time labor/military service. In the US at least.
Many other countries followed suit, and some have the even older 21.
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