Everyone knows about flocks of sheep and herds of elephants.
Here are some others:
Bevy of pretty girls
Flight of birds/bees
Leap of leopards
horde of savages
troupe of artists
company of actors
anthology of poems
herbarium of dried plants
hand of bananas (Thought it was a bunch!)
Skein of geese in flight
More info on collective nouns:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules/Collective-Nouns.html
Here is one that has 100000000's of ones http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
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