Class of Warrant or Right, Shares, Transfers

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126973232&loc=d3e21475-112644

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of securities into which each warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, each warrant may be converted into two shares.

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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Period between issuance and expiration of outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)(2)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126976982&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Warrant Liabilities - Narrative (Details) - $ / shares	9 Months Ended		21 Months Ended
Warrant Liabilities - Narrative (Details) - $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2022	Aug. 03, 2022	Aug. 02, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Common Stock
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by warrants (in shares)				500,000
Restricted stock units
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by warrants (in shares)				2,570,602
Seller Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Transfers to an Unrelated Third Party (in shares)	0	0
Warrants, exercise price (in dollars per share)	$ 39.90		$ 39.90	$ 39.90	$ 40.31
Number of securities called by each warrant (in shares)				0.28347	0.28055
Outstanding warrants (in shares)	12,721,901	12,721,901	12,721,901	12,721,901		12,721,901	12,721,901
Exercise Period	7 years		7 years	7 years
Seller Warrants \| Common Stock
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by warrants (in shares)				3,606,256	3,569,051
5-Year Private Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Transfers to an Unrelated Third Party (in shares)	75,201	394,863	836,371
Warrants, exercise price (in dollars per share)	$ 11.50		$ 11.50
Outstanding warrants (in shares)	9,403,629	9,493,552	9,403,629			9,478,830	9,888,415
Exercise Period	5 years		5 years