Not sure about other IFs, but 455 kHz was used in about a zillion superhet AM broadcast receivers dating back to the early part of the 20th Century. The reason it became so popular was a self-fulfilling feedback from the number of receivers using it and the availability of "standard" IF transformers for inter-stage coupling with built-in tuning capacitors and slug adjustments for the inductor core.
One of the first test instruments that I purchased back in the 1950s or early 1960s (I forget exactly when), right after assembling an EICO kit oscilloscope, was a sweep frequency generator (with markers!) that I used to adjust the bandwidth of television video IF amplifiers. This was almost never necessary unless a customer had helpfully "tightened down" all the slugs in the IF transformers in their misguided attempts at repair... usually after running all the vacuum tubes through a drug-store tube tester and replacing all the "bad" tubes.
Were it not for transistors, drug stores would still be raking in big bux selling replacement tubes their "testers" had discovered were "bad". Transistors also spelled the demise of TV repair shops because transistors hardly ever failed. I managed to get out of the TV repair business after graduating from high school by joining the Air Force. The Air Force also introduced me to better toys, which carried over to an engineering career after my four-year hitch was up..
Another "favorite" IF is 10.7 MHz, used in maybe a half-zillion superhet FM broadcast receivers, also dating back to the early part of the 20th Century.
This Wikipedia article has a pretty good overview of how, when, where, and why IFs are used in communications receivers, along with a list of IFs that have been used in commercial equipment. The designer, of course, is free to choose whatever IF will suit the purpose of their design.