Slate explains why.
Basically it's that the letter X is just so damn cool.
And also, there was a real spelling-reform movement that claimed "millions of dollars were wasted on printing unnecessary letters." No, really!
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"Unneccessary" has an unnecessary letter itself.
The history of the simplified spelling movement:
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/histsp.html
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