24 Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Garth Brooks

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8. Brooks met his first wife, Sandy Mahl, while breaking up a fight.

When Brooks was working as a bouncer at the Tumbleweed Ballroom in Stillwater, Oklahoma, he broke up a fight in the ladies' room. One of two women brawling was Mahl, who he later married and had three daughters with.

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